From: Johannes Niess (j.niess@uni-bonn.de)
Date: Fri May 21 1999 - 20:41:58 CEST
At 12:58 PM 5/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
> > What's funny is i ran into another problem. I selected the dhcpd
>> option, but i didn't get a place to specify my hostname (except in the
>> dummy network area, but this didn't work). Any ideas on how to
>> configure that information with anything ? (config file somewhere to
>> specify a hostname ?)
>>
>> sincerely,
>> marco
>> the correct file to edit is /setup/hosts
>Most linux distribs have a hostname file......sorry about that
>there is a /etc/hosts@ file but(and I may be wrong here) it's a symbolic
>link to /setup/hosts
>in this file there should currently be a line like this
> localhost add a line with your internal IP# and your chioce of
>internal hostname
>sorta' like this
> localhost
> me.mynet ------ by winsor
>-------------
>Ok, but the only thing that might be a problem is that when using DHCP,
>you don't know what
>IP address you're going to be assigned. This is my problem - any idea on
>how to work around this ? Anyone ? marco
Standard DHCP give you an IP. DNS is bound to the IP. Do you really need
/etc/hosts? It is a way to assign host names without DNS. Your machine
should be able to get its name via DNS. If you really need it:
nslookup myip|filter_the_output|cat otherhosts.file>/etc/hosts
Johannes Niess
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