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Subject: [linux-help] Re: DHCP and client-hostname
From: Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:54:19 -0500
Reply-to: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx

I am not familiar with the details of the DHCP protocol, but I'm not
aware that a client is supposed to give its host name. Perhaps you
need need to set up reverse DNS for the IP addresses.


On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 04:47:08PM -0500, Ryan Claycamp wrote:
> I have DHCP up and running at work.  I want use a local DNS server for 
> local name resolution and discovered some DHCP-DNS perl scripts to help 
> with this.  The trouble is that the clients are not reporting their 
> hostname and there is no client-hostname entry in the dhcp.leases file.  I 
> have Windows 98, Windows NT, and Linux clients and none of them report the 
> hostname.  I haven't found any help on the Internet; all discussions about 
> DHCP assume there is a client-hostname entry.  Is there some setting I am 
> missing on the DHCP server?  Is it trouble on the client?
> 
> Ryan
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