help with DNS/BIND/DHCPd

[James Gray]

On Sunday 22 January 2006 01:16, Hroller McKnutt wrote:
>  Help, my brain is melting! :)

Quick! Bung some corks in your ears so it doesn't run out!

>  I'm trying to get my local network to do some tricks and I'm having no
> luck.

My network can do tricks - it likes to randomly disappear and reappear.  But I 
think that's actually the ISP's magic. ;)

>  This all started with my router, I was looking at the LAN info and the
> one Windows machine on the network identifies itself as "fingerloop",
> while the linux boxes (both kubuntu 5.1, one upgraded from 5.04 and one
> from ubuntu 5.04) show just the IP address. Is there some way to make
> the linux boxes report a hostname or whatever to the router?

You can get the DHCP client on the Ubuntu/Kubuntu machines to send their 
hostname.  However, whether or not the MS router recognises or supports this 
RFC-standard DHCP behaviour is anyone's guess :P  Either way, it wont hurt 
anything to turn it on.

Edit the /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf file (sudo <editor> <file>) and add or 
uncomment the line:

send host-name "<hostname>";

...somewhere near the top of the file is a good option.  Mines the first 
non-commented line and works a champ with all our DHCP servers, and the Cisco 
Aironet access points :)

Once you've edited the file, you'll need to wait for the DHCP lease to expire 
or to force a new lease:
sudo ifdown eth0 ; sudo ifup eth0

...assuming your network interface is eth0.  Modify as necessary.

Usual disclaimers apply - YMMV.

HTH,


James
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