DHCP to give out domain.tld

[James W. Bennett]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 19:41 -0400, Donald Casey wrote:
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-test-list-
>>>bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
>>>Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 7:29 PM
>>>To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>>>Subject: Re: DHCP to give out domain.tld
>>>
>>>On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 19:18 -0400, Donald Casey wrote:
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>>>>I know this is probably the wrong place to ask this but...
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>>>>Can someone quickly tell me how to let DHCP set the domain.tld for a
>>>>machine. IE if I set the system name in /etc/hosts
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>>>"option domain-name" in dhcpd.conf.
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>>>Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
>>>http://fedora.ivazquez.net/
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>>>gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72
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>>Ignacio,
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>> My DHCP server is already configured to give out the domain.tld, which it
>>passes out properly to MS machines. What I am looking for is how to make the
>>Linux clients get the same info, while I want to define the machine name at
>>the local machine, just like MS. If I use just the machine name in
>>/etc/hosts not everything work just right. If I put in the entire name I get
>>machine.domain.tld.domain.tld in /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcp-leases and other
>>machine on my LAN will not use DNS to resolve this.
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>Try putting "machine.domain.tld." in /etc/hosts.
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Put machine.donain.tld /etc/sysconifg/network.