# Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:22:19:XX:XX:XX ONBOOT=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=centos.XXXXXXXXXX.local
In this particular instance, it's a place where Windows is used for DHCP and DNS servers. :( I have no control over the Windows side of things.
The Windows sysadmins claim I don't need a fixed IP address, because DNS will pick up the name after I make the DHCP request. The problem is, that doesn't happen, even though the DHCP client is correctly configured (see above). The system is vanilla CentOS 5.4, text-mode install, fully updated.
I boot the CentOS system. Then, on another Linux machine, I do "host centos.XXXXXXX.local" and it returns host not found. However, if I do the same for other hostnames, DNS resolution works fine.
Is there anything else I can do on my side to make it happen? Any particular options in dhclient.conf or something like that?