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From: Andreas Hirczy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:26:47 +0200
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Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> Hmm, Usually, you can boot very well even if the hostname is not set -
>>> you just need to tftp server address.
>> well the dns name has been set to that address in BIND
>> DHCP entry is like:
>>
>> group {
>> # PXE-specific configuration directives
>> next-server tftpserver;
>> filename "linux-install/pxelinux.0";
>> # You need an entry like this for every host
>> # unless you're using dynamic addresses
>> host vm00 {
>> hardware ethernet 00:0C:xx:xx:xx:xx;
>> fixed-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
>> }
>> }
>>
>
> Well, you don't set a name here, at least not one for the client to see; try
> adding
>
> host-name "vm00";
>
> after your fixed-address line, that might help.
I do not use the 'host-name' clause - just have 'use-host-decl-names on;'
once in the group definition (dhcp3).
Andreas
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