dhcp troubles

Erik Espinoza erik.espinoza at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 18:24:00 UTC 2004


I could be wrong, but it looks like your approach is a bit awkward and
may be hard to implement. Why not just use DNS for hostnames? Create a
zone and assign the hostnames to the IP. Once that's done, the
anaconda should be set to dhcp and will grab the name from dns.

Erik

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:09:07 +0200, Chadley Wilson <chadley at pinteq.co.za> wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have setup a dhcp server for my NFS distribution server, (same
> machine)
> I would like the dhcp server to automatically assign the leases with a
> host name, the mac addresses will not be the same ever so I do not want
> to link it to the mac addresses.
> I have read the documentation from TLDP but they only give very
> complicated setups as examples and I am new to this so I don't even know
> what the docs are trying to accomplish in some of these examples.
> 
> could some please assist me here.
> This is what I am trying to accomplish.
> 
> On an internal network without any internet connection for now,
> A dhcp server to assign addresses from 192.168.10.1 - 120
> a hostname for each address.
> like this
> 192.168.10.1 - station1
> 192.168.10.2 - station2
> 192.168.10.3 - station3
> 192.168.10.4 - station4
>  and so on
> 
> This should stop the installation looking for a NIS server right?
> then then the kickstart file should be automatically sent to the clients
> I have added the following line to the dhcp.conf file
> 
> filename "/home/distro/Fedora1/"
> 
> where my kickstart file resides.
> 
> The outcome is a linux distribution server.
> If anyone can help here it would be greatly appreciated.
> 
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