Re: DHCP in a Windows 2000 domain - udhcpc

[Ajit Warrier <unixajit yahoo com>]

Mike,

Oh yes. That works of course. And that's what I have
done with this laptop. UNfortunately, soon I will have
a bunch of PCs running linux and I dont want to create
reservations and static records on the DNS server. As
a network wide solution I don't think it is a good
idea.

--- Mike Barnes <mbarnes ewaken com> wrote:
> Ajit- I am sure the DHCP server does not issue the
> hostname, that is set on the client system. Then
> either the DHCP server or the client tells the W2K
> Dynamic DNS Server it's hostname, and IP. To me the
> problem lies in Linux communicating its hostname to
> the DHCP/DNS server.

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That's what I thought, but Rick has a different view.
I guess I need to do some fundamental reading on the
working of DHCP.

Thanks.

Ajit

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> Have you tried possibly making an IP reservation on
> the DHCP server, this gives you an option to enter
> the hostname. In conjunction with this, if the
> hostname is not registered w/DNS, you could then
> just make a static A record on your DNS server.
> 
> 
> >********************
> >I think the way it works in W2K is that the W2k
> client
> >asks for an IP and once it has received it, the
> DHCP
> >server registers the client hostname and IP with
> the
> >DNS server, I dont know if the DHCP server sends
> the
> >hostname to the client but it sure sends it to the
> DNS
> >server. Is there a way I can find out?
> >
> >But doesn't the hostname of the client go from the
> >client to the DHCP server rather than from the DHCP
> >server to the client?
> >
> >********************
> >> hostname it
> >> supplies you UNLESS the DHCP server supports the
> >> "hostname" option and
> >> you have "-h your-host-name" passed to dhcpcd
> (the
> >> DHCP client daemon on
> >> Linux) as an option.
> >> 
> >
> >********************
> >How do I do that? Please bear with me - I am a
> linux
> >newbie
> >
> >********************
> >
>
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