[CentOS] hostname not being picked up by DHCP
Matt Hyclak
hyclak at math.ohiou.eduThu Sep 27 22:37:21 UTC 2007
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 05:10:02PM -0500, Denis enlightened us: > - I am using the CentOS v5 desktop installation and am setting up a > new lab for our engineering department. Initially I computers got their > IP addresses and computer names from the DHCP process and the computer > were getting the info from the dynamic pool. These name would be > d-23-76.mnsu.edu, where the d stood for dynamic and 23-76 refered the > IP address of xx.xx.23.76. The computer hostname would show up as > d-23-76. I did not want the computers to get different IP address so I > put the computers onto our DHCP table as manual DHCP clients by > assigning a name and mac address to an IP address. Now the computers > get the correct IP address but the hostname is localhost. > > How can I get the correct name for hostname from DHCP? Is reverse DNS set up for those IP addresses? -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
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