dhcpd

[Marcel Kunath]

Thanks,

this is it. I had overread this part in the long man page. I actually use

option host-name "name";

inside the host declaration. I ad tried it earlier but must have forgotten the
"".

Thanks,

on another note....having moved from michigan to sydney I thought with my
freshly installed machines I would get rid of this backspace error delet
problem in elm pilot. I grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr it I mean worked fine for a few days
until this morning where I again can print out nice stuff by pressing
[3~[3~[3~ delete button. It's time to abandon pilot I suppose and move to
another mailserver.

mk

> > Marcel Kunath wrote: > > > > Hello,
> > > > I set up a dhcp server and it works. Is there any way to assign to
> > clients(win98 and Linux) the hostname by use of the dhcp server?
> >
> > One can use samba to sync the clock of clients with the server. Is there a w
ay
> > to sync a Linux client's clock with server clock?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >  -- Marcel Kunath
> >
>
> I assume you're using dhpcd from isc.org(?). If so, it would appear that
> the 'use-host-decl-names' option might do what you're looking to do. I
> wasn't really aware of this feature, and so have never tried it to see
> what it actually does, but the man page "man dhcpd.conf" makes it look
> promising. Version 3 of ISC's dhcp server, in conjunction with bind,
> does indeed do dynamic dns as Sean suggested (and it works quite well I
> might add) but the way the question is phrased makes it sound more like
> you want to assign the clients hostname itself from the dhcp server by
> MAC address rather than an automatic DNS update.
>
> I suspect the willingness of the client to receive host names from the
> dhcp server will also be an issue (if indeed this is what you're trying
> to accomplish). Maybe I'm too much of a neophyte - but I didn't know
> this could be done.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> --
> Mike Rambo
> mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us
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Marcel Kunath

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