[Sunhelp] DHCP Question

[Magnus Abrante]

After getting its IP address from the DHCP server the Solaris box will
query the DHCP server for a hostname (using /sbin/dhcpinfo Hostname), if
the DHCP server doesn't give it a valid hostname it will use "unknown".

Still you can set the nodename of the machine to what you want, and you
can edit the /etc/hosts and adding the hostname you desire, but it would
be better to configure a hostname in the DHCP server.

If you dont want to use the DHCP config to get the hostname you might edit 
the files /etc/init.d/inetsvc and network which does a :
hostname=`/sbin/dhcpinfo Hostname`

to
hostname=`cat /etc/nodename`

or something like that.

        //Magnus Abrante
/* This is my opinion and not the one of my empolyer */

> That link is down for me. Can anyone else point me in the right 
> direction or answer that question? Thanks.
> -Blake
> 
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> From: daniel.cuthbert [mailto:daniel.cuthbert at uk.psi.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 9:29 AM
> To: sunhelp
> Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] DHCP Question
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> Blake
> 
> have a look at
> 
> http://www.rite-group.com/consulting/solaris_dhcp.html
> 
> Dan Cuthbert
> European Hosting Research & Engineering
> PSINet
> mobile : +44 77 1279 0646
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> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of blake r matheny
> Sent: 18 September 2000 15:07
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [Sunhelp] DHCP Question
> 
> 
> Hello people,
> I set up a Sun machine to be a dhcp client, but when I rebooted after
> creating dhcp.hme0 and the other necessary files, it says that the 
> hostname is 'unknown'. Where do I define the hostname? I can't put
> one 
> in hostname.hme0 or dhcp won't work, and I have the entire class C in
> my hosts file. Anyone have any advice for dynamic hostnames (other
> then 
> NIS) ? Thanks in advance.
> - -Blake
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