[Sunhelp] DHCP configuration)

[Brian Hinz]

the problem is that your dhcp server is not configured to distribute the hostname information.  if
you are in a position where you have control over the dhcp server you can add something similar to
this to the dhcpd.conf file:

host yourhostname {
        hardware ethernet 8:0:20:f0:f2:1f;
        fixed-address 192.168.1.201;
        option host-name "yourhostname";
}

i spent some time researching this problem a few weeks back and found that some people propose
putting an rc script in your /etc/init.d directory, or commenting out the lines where the hostname
"unknown" gets set.  I found that both of these caused all sorts of weird problems on my machine,
like the window manager taking an excessively long time to start, etc.

-brian

mjannelli wrote:

> >
> > Hi,
> > Put the hosname of the machine to /etc/nodename
> >
> > /Gayantha
> >
>
> I am afraid that it is not enough, because the file /etc/nodename contains already the host name.
>
> Bye
> Monica
>
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