[CentOS] Antwort: DHCP_HOSTNAME in ifcfg-eth0
Andreas Reschke
Andreas.Reschke at behrgroup.com
Tue Nov 29 14:01:50 UTC 2011
centos-bounces at centos.org schrieb am 29.11.2011 14:57:15:
> Timothy Madden <terminatorul at gmail.com>
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> [CentOS] DHCP_HOSTNAME in ifcfg-eth0
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> Hello
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> Is there a way for the dhcp client to send the current host name of the
> machine when requesting a lease ?
>
> Currently I have to include a line like
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=appserver2
> in my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, but I would like to
> tell the dhcp client to just 'also send the hostname' and then the
> client to get the current hostname itself, instead of having the name
> hard-coded in the ifcfg-eth0 file.
>
> I am trying to get my router to know the names of all my CentOS
> machines, as currently I can access none of my CentOS machines by their
> node name (I get 'unknown host' upon name lookup) and maybe it will help
> if the router knows all the computer names.
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> Thank you,
> Timothy Madden
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Hi Timothy,
I've in my config file:
DHCP_CLIENT_ID=st00ni0029
DHCP_HOSTNAME=st00ni0029
That works for me.
Gruß
Andreas Reschke
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