[Spacewalk-list] Client hostname resolution

[Adrián Márques]

Wow, I think that was the quickest anyone has ever answered me in a 
mailing list. Thanks for the tip Deevee!

This will do for the little experimenting I'm doing here, but I'd still 
like to know the root cause of this, since this solution couldn't be 
employed when deploying on a network where the clients get their IPs 
through DHCP. So, could anyone shed some light on this?

Thank you again Deevee for your answer.

Regards.

Adrián.

Deevee escribió:
>
> Hello Adrian,
>
> I had a similar problem.  Adding the hostname into /etc/hosts should 
> fix this.
>
> -dv
>
>
> On Sep 4, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Adrián Márques wrote:
>
>> Hello there.
>>
>> I'm trying out spacewalk on CentOs 5.2 and all my clients' hostnames 
>> and system names are being registered as 'unknown' on the server. 
>> What could be the reason? How does the server determine the client's 
>> hostname?
>>
>> I suppose this is part of the problem: my systems are connected 
>> through a windows network and I can't resolve their hostnames. Well, 
>> actually I can now, but it took configuring samba to publish the 
>> netbios name, doing hostname resolution through WINS and even then 
>> I'm not resolving the FQDNs (clientname.domainname) but the netbios 
>> names (clientname).
>>
>> I'd appreciate any comments on this.
>>
>> Thanks for you attention.
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> Adrián.
>>
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