Dear List and Vineet, I began: > > I have scoured the web and even read the generally helpful > > Chapter 10 - Network Configuration from Debian Reference > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html, > > but I cannot figure out how to set hostname and domain using > > dhcp.
Vineet wrote (full comment below): > ....my dhcp client tells the dhcp server that its hostname > is "wingnut", instead of somehow asking the dhcp server > for a hostname. This way, if the dhcp server is set up to > do so, I get a dns record set up for wingnut. Unless the > dhcp server is configured to assign certain addresses to > certain hostnames and it doesn't know anything about > wingnut this works just fine. This way my hostname is > always wingnut; it doesn't change depending on the whims > of a particular site's (potentially whack) dhcp server. Thank you, Vineet, for the response. I do indeed want the opposite of the behavior that you have, i.e., I want the dhcp server to send my computer the hostname. I also want like to have domain set properly by dhclient. The main reason is that I frequently ssh or scp to the machine and it's easiest if I can see the hostname in front of me. The server won't let me choose hostname via "send host-name" and I am happy to live with the assigned names, which are reasonable on my campus, e.g., buildingname-arbitrarynumber.dhcp.myschool.edu But once this is the assigned name, I would prefer to have it everywhere on the computer, i.e., in /etc/hostname, as the response to "hostname --fqdn", etc., etc. Also I cannot get dhclient to set the domain. The other response from the list was: > The dhclient script is broken; it doesn't do the hostname > properly. It is probably fixable, but that script is a > big mess. Thanks--it is good to know that I am not alone with this problem. I fiddled around with dhclient-exit-hooks, which I could get to run when I ran dhclient from the command line but not on bootup. I guess I consider this whole thing a pretty serious problem (the domain setting more important than the hostname, which I can live with). I want my computer to know its domain. Is there a fix? Should I move to a different DHCP-client program? Can you recommend one? Is there a program called "pump"? Best, M.A. P.S. Not to generate invidious comparison, but on one of my other Linux boxes, made by some company in the Carolinas, I plug the box into the campus network, flip on the computer, walk away, and return to find it with hostname, domain name, etc. Vineet's full comment: > I can't quite wrap my head around why you'd want to do this; do you > expect your hostname to be changing all the time? Is this what you > want? Is there a requirement for the campus network that you use a > hostname assigned by them? If you use a different dhcp hostname, will > you not get an address? > > The way my laptop is set up is pretty much the opposite of what you're > asking to do: I set my own hostname the regular way, and I also added a > line to me /etc/dhclient.conf: > > send host-name "wingnut"; > > This way, my dhcp client tells the dhcp server that its hostname is > wingnut, instead of somehow asking the dhcp server for a hostname. This > way, if the dhcp server is set up to do so, I get a dns record set up > for wingnut. Unless the dhcp server is configured to assign certain > addresses to certain hostnames and it doesn't know anything about > wingnut this works just fine. This way my hostname is always wingnut; > it doesn't change depending on the whims of a particular site's > (potentially whack) dhcp server. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
