How to update Windows DNS server with Linux DHCP client hostname?

[Patrick Doyle]

On 5/18/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:41 -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> >
> > Our IT department is a "Windows only" department.  I'm wondering if
> > the DNS server picks up the (Windows) PC hostnames from an SMB
> > advertisement of some sort.
>
> Are they doing it the other way around?  (The DHCP server telling the
> clients the hostname to use - along with their IP.)
>
I suppose it's possible... although when I did a

$ dig -x a.b.c.d

DNS didn't report a hostname.

By the time I left, I used up all the free DHCP addresses.  Now it
will have to keep until Monday.

--wpd