[CentOS] Set hostname via DHCP ?

Filipe Brandenburger filbranden at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 14:31:56 UTC 2009


Hi,

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:00, Niki Kovacs<contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:
> host raymonde {
>   hardware ethernet 00:20:ed:b8:e8:ec;
>   fixed-address 192.168.1.2;
>   option host-name "raymonde";
> }
[...]
> lease {
>   option host-name "raymonde";
>   option domain-name "local";
> }
> Here's what 'hostname' returns:
> # hostname
> raymonde
> But when I go for the domain name, I get this:
> # hostname -d
> hostname: Hôte inconnu --> means 'Unknown host' in french :o)
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?

I guess you have to use this in dhcpd.conf:

    option host-name "raymonde.local";

At least, in my dhclient-eth0.leases file I have option host-name with
the fully qualified host name...

I am getting host names from DNS with "get-lease-hostnames on;" in
dhcpd.conf, so I think it does what I expect (sending FQDNs) in that
case...

HTH,
Filipe



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