How to turn on DHCP?

[John Nelson <john computation com>]

All,

I have a small network of Linux machines and am trying to bing up a DHCP
server on one of these machines so as to provide IP addresses to the other
machines.  The nearest I can tell is that I would set up the eth0 devices
on the clients in netcfg as DHCP (as opposed to NONE or BOOTP).

But the server has to be set up in some way to provide DHCP services and I
can't really figure out how.  There should be a config file someplace that
tells dhcpcd and pump to turn on but.... well I really haven't figured it
out.

Also, my clients have a problem with DNS (the client machines are unable
to associate IP numbers with names).  I set up named and /etc/named.conf
to be a caching server (config right out of the box) and I added some IN
records at the bottom of the named.local file in /var/named for each
client machine, but neither these names or any supposedly cached
information is being exposed to the clients.

So even though I've used netcfg and linuxconf to set things up, I'm
still missing something someplace.

The good news is that the routes are probably ok.  IP addresses route, but
names don't translate.  Any good cookbook references to setting this up?

-- John

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