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Re: [LUG] LAN dynamic DNS problems

 

Simon Williams wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Adding "-h `hostname`" to the dhcpcd options fixes it.

Shoot me...

The startup scripts have the hostname option, but I was calling dhcpcd 
directly for testing purposes.

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