DHCP to give out domain.tld

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Thu Apr 28 23:51:26 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 19:41 -0400, Donald Casey wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-test-list-
> > bounces at 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 at 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.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72
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