-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wrote: > On Friday 28 February 2003 04:04 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > I can't be 100% sure Buchan because it was late when I did this last night. I > do know that /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 did not have an entry > for DHCP_HOSTNAME until I ran drakconnect post-install. Perhaps this is > because it never ran during install because I did a network install. But if > drakconnect did not run during install because the network was already > configured, that means the installer is not configuring the network properly > when network.img is used.
That is the case, and needs to be fixed ... when doing network installs, we actually do reset DHCP_HOSTNAME (or on 9.0 we ran drakconnect again) post-install. The installer should really give an option to reset configuration at the end IMHO ... > > >>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. >> > > Well, I would think that an admin on a corporate network that has dhcp set up > is not going to want to fight with this, they would accept the default. What > about the people on home network's that are the one's that will really care > about this. Joe User, who really wants to name his computer after a famous > jazz musician. How can you accomodate both sets of users? tmdns should really handle this case AFAIK. Otherwise some test with $ host `hostname` |(test for good answer) || echo -e "127.0.0.1\t\t `hostname`" >> /etc/hosts in initscripts. > > Here is what I am going to do to help the situation. I can't do it today, but > I should have time to do about 5 installs this weekend using various > scenarios of dhcp, non-dhcp, network vs. cd install. I will update Cooker > tonight and create a set of install CD's (hopefully Warly has fixed the > kernel selection issue) and do various network and cd installs and document > my findings. Cool. But maybe also we need to have a summary of the desired behaviour? Fred? Florin? Otherwise we don't know what to file bugs for ... > > I know time is of the essence at this pint (I meant point, maybe that is my > subconscious rising to the surface ;-) ), and it would be nice to see this > fixed/understood before rc2, but this is the best I can do given the rest of > my schedule. > > To make sure I am looking at everything relevant, confirm these are the > configuration files that matter. > > /etc/hosts > /etc/host.conf > /etc/resolve.conf > /etc/dh-client.conf > /etc/tmdns IIRC, /etc/tmdns.conf > /etc/sysconfig/hostname > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Output of 'hostname' Output of 'host `hostname`' Output of 'nslookup -sil `hostname`' Buchan - -- |--------------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+X31JrJK6UGDSBKcRAq6cAKCRUwj8tYOc6UYvm9E6r8r+1/4h6wCgiREd 8OPXGmVVYi4qaQHH9GeEa50= =Sre2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
