DHCP server/client problem

[Mike Burger]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Cordell, Ron wrote:

> We've got RHEL 3 and have set up a DHCP server. The optional
> "domain-name" attribute has been set for the subnet, but the dhcp client
> on machines don't seem to be setting the "domain" parameter in
> resolv.conf. The resolv.conf *is* being written by the dhcpclient,
> however.
> 
> Can anyone point out something that I might be missing?

Take a look at the "search" line in the clients' /etc/resolv.conf files.  
That's what gets set by the "option domain-name" line in dhcpd.conf.

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