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Re: [LUG] LAN dynamic DNS problems

 

On 9/4/06, Simon Williams <systemparadox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> LOL- asking for help is so useful, but only because it means I'll find
> the answer myself shortly afterwards.

Yea, that always happens, nothing like asking the question to
*realise* the answer your self :-)

>
> The reason 192.168.39.1 was appearing was that for some reason (like-
> "I'm stupid") I had put that in for the server in /etc/hosts instead of
> 192.168.38.1. Other than that dhcpd was working fine.

Any reason you are listing it in /etc/hosts when you have a fully
working local dns?

My DNS has all my static servers and systems listed as well as all the
automatic ones that  dhcpd fills in for me.

>
> As for the link between the two, it seems that dhcpcd doesn't send the
> hostname along with the request by default. Which explains why I have an
> entry for the windows machine, but not the linux ones. Though one of the
> linux machines had its name in the dhcpd logs a few times- can't work
> out why. Perhap someone could shed some light on this.

Did you use a different dhcp client that time? dhclient, pump etc.

-- 
Robin Cornelius
http://www.byteme.org.uk

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