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Troy Piggins

2004-01-23, 7:28 pm

Hi. My gateway is running RH9, external interface is DHCP address
while internal is static. Both interfaces work fine and perform
well enough.
One little thing annoys me - the dhcp server must determine my
hostname. Is there a way of accepting all the dhcp information
(such as dns, gateways, time servers, ip address) but not accepting
or over-riding the hostname that I want (eg - gateway1). I believe
there is something I should be able to put in a dhcp client conf
file, but not found any good web sites with the information I want.
Thanks.
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Lenard

2004-01-23, 7:28 pm

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 06:24:14 +0000, Troy Piggins typed:
quote:

> Hi. My gateway is running RH9, external interface is DHCP address while
> internal is static. Both interfaces work fine and perform well enough.
> One little thing annoys me - the dhcp server must determine my hostname.
> Is there a way of accepting all the dhcp information (such as dns,
> gateways, time servers, ip address) but not accepting or over-riding the
> hostname that I want (eg - gateway1). I believe there is something I
> should be able to put in a dhcp client conf file, but not found any good
> web sites with the information I want. Thanks.



/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-ethX ;where X is your external
interface(i.e. eth0, eth1 etc).

Add a line like;
HOSTNAME=The_name_I_want_here


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Troy Piggins

2004-01-23, 7:28 pm

* Lenard <lenard@127.0.0.1> [Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:57 pm] :
quote:

> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 06:24:14 +0000, Troy Piggins typed:
>
>
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-ethX ;where X is your external
> interface(i.e. eth0, eth1 etc).
>
> Add a line like;
> HOSTNAME=The_name_I_want_here
>
>



Thanks.
I think you mean /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (well, at least
for my distro)
I seem to remeber doing that once before, but when the dhcp lease renewed,
hostname was overwritten. Was thinking there may be a config file as
dhclient that ignored dhcp server's hostname. Maybe the ISP needs hostname
to be something or other for authentication?
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