Re: DHCP to give out domain.tld

["James W. Bennett" <silverhead comcast net>]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 19:41 -0400, Donald Casey wrote:
>  
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: fedora-test-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:fedora-test-list-
> > > bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 7:29 PM
> > > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> > > Subject: Re: DHCP to give out domain.tld
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 19:18 -0400, Donald Casey wrote:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > I know this is probably the wrong place to ask this but...
> > > >
> > > > Can someone quickly tell me how to let DHCP set the domain.tld for a
> > > > machine. IE if I set the system name in /etc/hosts
> > > >        
> > > "option domain-name" in dhcpd.conf.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez ivazquez net>
> > > http://fedora.ivazquez.net/
> > >
> > > gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72
> > >      
> > Ignacio,
> >
> > My DHCP server is already configured to give out the domain.tld, which it
> > passes out properly to MS machines. What I am looking for is how to make the
> > Linux clients get the same info, while I want to define the machine name at
> > the local machine, just like MS. If I use just the machine name in
> > /etc/hosts not everything work just right. If I put in the entire name I get
> > machine.domain.tld.domain.tld in /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcp-leases and other
> > machine on my LAN will not use DNS to resolve this.
> >    
>
> Try putting "machine.domain.tld." in /etc/hosts.
>
>  
Put machine.donain.tld /etc/sysconifg/network.