centos-bounces at centos.org schrieb am 29.11.2011 14:57:15: > Timothy Madden <terminatorul at gmail.com> > Gesendet von: centos-bounces at centos.org > > 29.11.2011 14:57 > > Bitte antworten an > CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > > An > > centos at centos.org > > Kopie > > Thema > > [CentOS] DHCP_HOSTNAME in ifcfg-eth0 > > Hello > > 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. > > Thank you, > Timothy Madden > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi Timothy, I've in my config file: DHCP_CLIENT_ID=st00ni0029 DHCP_HOSTNAME=st00ni0029 That works for me. Gruß Andreas Reschke ________________________________________________________________ Unix/Linux-Administration Andreas.Reschke at behrgroup.com