[GLLUG] hostname with DHCP

Benjamin Minshall minshal1 at msu.edu
Thu Sep 4 14:13:24 EDT 2003


That depends on the DHCP client program that you're using.  If it's 
dhclient, then look in the configuration file /etc/dhclient.conf.  If 
it's pump, then I believe the config file is /etc/pump/pump.conf; 
although I haven't used pump in a while, so I can't be sure.

-Ben

Todd Torrey wrote:
> Thanks to everybody for the help! Now I have another question. How do I 
> set the hostname if I'm getting an IP addrress via DHCP. The examples of 
> /etc/hosts that I'm seeing are for static IP addresses.
> 
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