On Wednesday 31 Aug 2005 17:00, Bogdan Calmac wrote: > I use debian stable (sarge) and the dhcp3-client package. I register > my hostname by adding > > send hostname "foo"; > > in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. Everything works fine but for some reason > the DHCP/DNS server (which I don't control) loses the hostname > registration and the next day I need to connect to my machine using > the IP. Once I logon, I do > > ifup --force eth0 > > and the hostname is registered again. This is obviously not nice, so > is it possible to: > > 1. configure dhclient to send the hostname at a certain interval? > 2. configure dhclient to send just the hostname? > 3. control the interval at which dhclient renews the lease and set it > to a few hours so that the hostname is sent more frequently? > > Do you have any other suggestion for approaching this? Again, I cannot > touch the server. > > In the worst case I would probably set a cron job to do "ifup --force eth0" > :-(
I think the problem is that it should be "send host-name" instead of "send hostname". -- It's bad enough that life is a rat-race, but why do the rats always have to win? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
