host name in fc

[Danesh Daroui]

Peter Arremann wrote:

>On Saturday 01 January 2005 16:22, Danesh Daroui wrote:
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>>I did change host name in system-config-network, but it is not still in
>>routers clients list and host name for my fedora machine is still blank,
>>is it important at all ?
>>Yeah, samba is installed in my LAN.
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>I don't see if you already answered the question, but are you using the router 
>as your dhcp and dns server right? 
>Windows automatically updates a dns server if set through dhcp with the name 
>(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q228803/) in such a configuration. Look at 
>the manpage of dhclient.conf - especially the DYNAMIC DNS section... that 
>setups the same in Linux. 
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>Peter.
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Well, I think my router acts only as a DHCP server and not DNS server. 
However, its roll is a DNS proxy which re-send all DNS queries to my 
ISP's DNS server. If I am wrong please correct me.