On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: > It seems to be a morning for questions. > > I have dhcpd running on a machine on my network with "get-lease-hostnames > on". > > Some machines that use this dhcpd pick up their assigned lease hostname > which says that this function is working, as reported by /bin/hostname. > > Others don't, staying with the default localhost.localdomain even though > there is a valid hostname in the DNS. > > What determines whether the default hostname gets overridden by the > assigned hostname.
I found that if you have /etc/hosts entries or something setup in /etc/sysconfig/network (is this file RH specific?) it can override what comes from your DHCP server. This is how my laptop's setup because I want to keep the hostname the same every time. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
