[Spacewalk-list] Client hostname resolution

[John Hodrien]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Adrián Márques wrote:

> 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.

Works just fine with hosts getting their IPs through DHCP.  Machines that get
their IP through DHCP can either get their hostname through DHCP as well, or
get it through DNS afterwards.

jh

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