4.9-Stable DHCP and dynamic DNS updates

[Oliver Brandmueller]

Hi.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:11:07PM +0100, Tony Sequeira wrote:
> I have been battling with this on and off for a couple of weeks now,
> with varying degrees of success.
> 
> My big problem is that only thw Win XP DHCP client appears to update
> the zone, my linux machines do not.
> 
> The examples I can find on the web are BIND9 specific.  I do not really
> wish to upgrade the stable release of BIND.
> 
> Can anyone provide help.
> 
> I will post specific details if requested, want to see if help is
> available before polluting the ether. :)

Well, if it works for the Win-XP machines, then it's not a problem with 
your DHCP daemon or bind, but just the fact, that the Linux-Clients 
don't send their hostnames.

I don't know which DHCP client you're using on your Linux machines, so 
no answer for you. FreeBSD dhclient needs something like this in 
/etc/dhclient.conf:

send host-name "myhostname";

Check the manpage of your Linux dhclient for commandline options or 
config file syntax.

- Oliver

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