Thin Client /etc/hosts entry

[M Rathburn]

________________________________

	From: ekul taylor [mailto:ekul.taylor at gmail.com] 
	Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 4:40 PM
	To: stretchem at gmail.com
	Cc: Edubuntu Users Group
	Subject: Re: Thin Client /etc/hosts entry
	
	
	I'm not 100% sure but you would either need to write a startup
script to add them each boot or (more ideally) add the terminal server as a
dns server in the dhcp settings and add any hosts you want to bind on the
terminal server
	
	
	On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:30 PM, M Rathburn <stretchem at gmail.com>
wrote:
	

		Edubuntu 8.10 on amd64
		
		How do I make entries into the /etc/hosts for PXE i386 thin
clients?  I
		noticed that when I chrooted and tried to edit the file, it
shows:
		
		#This is a ltsp chroot and this file will be rewritten in
boot process
		#of terminal.
		127.0.0.1 localhost
		
		So where would I make the entries so they'll propagate to
the TC's?
		
		Thanks.
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On the server, /etc/resolv.conf looks like this:

domain childrenfirstflorida.org
search childrenfirstflorida.org
nameserver 192.168.0.254
nameserver 192.168.1.1


The 0.254 address is the LTSP server, and the 1.1 address is the internet
router.  When a thin client boots up, it's /etc/resolv.conf looks like this:

domain childrenfirstflorida.org
search childrenfirstflorida.org
nameserver 192.168.1.1

and it's /etc/hosts looks like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.2 CFF-1014
192.168.0.254 server


The server's dhcpd.conf portion that matters looks like this:

option domain-name "childrenfirstflorida.org";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.254, 192.168.1.1;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
option routers 192.168.0.254;
 

The server's /etc/hosts looks like this:

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       ltsp1.childrenfirstflorida.org  ltsp1
192.168.1.36    portal.childrenfirstflorida.org

# For thin clients.
192.168.0.14    CFF-1014
192.168.0.12    FPS-1012
192.168.0.16    FPS-1016


It's that 'portal.scholarshipfunding.org' portion that I need to route
locally first, since it's on the same LAN (don't want to go out and back
in).  How do I make it so that a thin client's /etc/hosts has that entry for
'192.168.1.36   portal.childrenfirstflorida.org', OR it's default nameserver
is 192.168.0.254 and secondary nameserver is 192.168.1.1?

Thanks.