4.9-Stable DHCP and dynamic DNS updates

[andy_park at nospammail.net]

I was recently investigating a similar problem with my RH9 host, and 
last time I checked there was a problem regarding dynamic DNS updates 
with ISC dhclient versions prior to 3.0pl12 (or was it rc12?). What 
version do you have?

On 29 Mar 2004, at 20:44, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 18:50, Oliver Brandmueller wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
> [...]
>>
>> 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 had come to that conclusion, light eventually reaches the dimmest
> places :)
>
>> 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:
>
> It's ISC dhclient.
>>
>> send host-name "myhostname";
>
> I have that exactly in my /etc/dhclient.conf file.
>
>> Check the manpage of your Linux dhclient for commandline options or
>> config file syntax.
>
> I will do, thanks.
>
>> - Oliver
> -- 
> Tony
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