diskless clients getting a wierd hostname...

["Brent M. Clements" <bclem rice edu>]

Hi All,

 I am serving up RH EL 3 Diskless clients using the RHEL 3 tools.

Everything works great except one thing. The hostnames aren't being
propogated to the machines.

At boot time, the log file shows that my machines boot up fine using their
ip/hostname combo.

But when you ssh into any of the machines, the hostname show "no". If you
type "hostname" you get "no"


I have the proper setup in my dhcpd.conf file, ie .

host shootermcgraw {
        hardware ethernet 00:E0:81:21:19:D8;
        fixed-address 192.168.1.6;
        option host-name "shootermcgraw";
}

And my hosts file contains the proper hostname configuration.


I can't for the life of me figure out what is causing this.

Btw just in case someone asks, I have ddns-update-style interim;

Thanks for any help!


-Brent



Brent Clements
Linux Technology Specialist
Information Technology
Rice University

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