-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wrote: > I am having trouble with the hostname on my cooker box and can't figure out > what is going on. I am updated through 20030227's Cooker. > > I am on a network with a dhcp server and have set a hostname in drakconnect. > When I reboot, the machine is assigned an ip address by the dhcp server > (192.168.0.6) and the hostname is set to dhcppc5. > > I know that the dhcp server is providing the hostname, but why doesn't the OS > use the hostname I entered in drakconnect? > > The contents of my /etc/sysconfig/networking file: > > NETWORKING=yes > GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 > > If I add a hostname and domain name to /etc/sysconfig/networking, it still > boots up using dhcppc5 as the hostname. What is going on here?
What have you got in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? (NO I am not saying people should have to edit this by hand, I am trying to see what drakconnect should be doing). This is what I have to get the behaviour I want: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bgmilne]$ grep -i hostname /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 NEEDHOSTNAME=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=bgmilne-thinkpad [EMAIL PROTECTED] bgmilne]$ grep -i hostname /etc/sysconfig/network #HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain HOSTNAME=bgmilne-thinkpad > > Shouldn't the hostname I provide in drakconnect override anything the DHCP > server provides. I am not sure. What about in corporate networks, where if the name is assigned by dhcp, then dns entries get added (DDNS). If the user did not know this, and gets a different name as hostname to what was assigned to them, then we have the hostname lookup problem again. > I see this has been dicussed before, but I don't see > resolution. Why should I have to manually edit > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and /etc/sysconfig/networking to > set a hostname on this machine. > - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+XyYsrJK6UGDSBKcRAv2nAKCRDv1XFq35Cr9oz99lzdJhU9Y9OQCdFdHF FrOcAO1+83z6svNe4p/xMSQ= =lB9L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
