If your trying to make CentOS/Fedora boxes to get hostname remember you need
to have localhost.localdomain in /etc/sysconfig/network.
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
see around line 252-261
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions
need_hostname ()
{
CHECK_HOSTNAME=`hostname`
if [ "$CHECK_HOSTNAME" = "(none)" -o "$CHECK_HOSTNAME" = "localhost" -o
\
"$CHECK_HOSTNAME" = "localhost.localdomain" ]; then
return 0
else
return 1
fi
}
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Andreas Pedersen
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> # i do NOT have any kind of use-host-decl-names on; entry. Do you use
> dnsmasq or dhcpd?
> # /etc/dhcpd.conf Not sure if a dnsmasq entry would be the same anymore.
> host babasse {
> hardware ethernet 00:0d:61:ae:6b:8f;
> fixed-address 192.168.1.249;
> option host-name
> "PutClientHostNameHereNotSureIfItHasToBeSameAsAbove-babasse";
> }
>
> #Don't remember what happens when a linux client machine has already
> been configured.
> #But know for a fact that all pxe booted and live linux booted and
> Windows Vista and WinXP
> #machines use the hostname from the dhcpd entry.
>
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Niki Kovacs<contact at kikinovak.net>
> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I just setup one of my machines as a DHCP server. I'd like it to handle
> > the hostnames of clients. Don't know if this is an orthodox thing to do
> > (feel free to add your comments :oD). Here's the server's relevant lines
> > of dhcpd.conf:
> >
> > --8<-------
> > ...
> > # Envoyer les noms d'hôtes aux clients
> > use-host-decl-names on;
> >
> > # Adresses statiques
> > host babasse {
> > hardware ethernet 00:0d:61:ae:6b:8f;
> > fixed-address 192.168.1.249;
> > }
> > --8<-------
> >
> > Now the question is: how should the configuration look like on the
> > client side, so the hostname gets effetively fetched from the DHCP
> > server? During the initial install, I assigned hostnames manually to
> > every machine.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Niki Kovacs
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