How to update Windows DNS server with Linux DHCP client hostname?
Patrick Doyle
wpdster at gmail.com
Fri May 18 18:10:06 UTC 2007
OK, I'm stuck.
I have an environment in which the DHCP and DNS servers are hosted by
a Windows PC somewhere in a closet. (They may even be the same PC.)
I have an FC6 DHCP client for whom I want to publish a hostname. Up
to now, all of our FC6 boxes have gotten their IP info from the DHCP
server and nobody ever cared what IP address was assigned to what
machine. Now I want to run a service on one of these clients, so I
want its hostname to show up in DNS.
However IT has our DHCP/DNS server(s) set up, I can ping windows
machines from windows machines by hostname. I can ping windows
machines from Linux machines, again by hostname. I just can't figure
out what knob to twist to tell my Linux machines to tell the DHCP/DNS
server about it's hostname so that I can ping it from other machines.
Any suggestions on where to look?
--wpd
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