[luau] dhcp-146-41

[Dustin Cross]

Wayne,

Road Runner has always assigned hostnames to all of their DHCP clients and
so does every other ISP that uses DHCP that I know of.  This is standard
practice and is how they track the systems on their network.  You can
override this functionality, but it sounds like your problem is with a
Redhat configuration.  The hostname of your system should have no effect on
its operation.  The name localhost is ment to be assigned to 127.0.0.1 and
not your external IP address.  When your system communicates with localhost
it is talking to 127.0.0.1 and not the IP address Road Runner assigned,
unless you have changed something or Redhat's default config is wrong.  You
are making a big deal out of nothing.


Dusty





> Again, most discussions seem to have missed my point that this is not a
>  technical issue, but something of a much broader significance.
>
>
> yuser at hi.net wrote:
>
>>I may have missed something in context here but I do not believe this
>>is  some conspiracy.
>>
>>Setting a hostname is something normal in DHCP operation.  It is a
>>configuration option on a DHCP server and overrideable option on a DHCP
>> client.
>>
>>This option is useful if you need it but can be equally a pain if you
>>don't.  That is why it can be overriden on the client end.
>>
>>Here is a typicial config entry in a DHCP server and one I use on my
>>local network:
>>
>> host printsrv {
>>                option host-name "printsrv.sux2beu.ml.org";
>>                hardware ethernet 00:A0:C9:95:53:DD;
>>                fixed-address 192.168.0.20;
>>        }
>>
>>In fact I use this configuration for a majority of workstations on my
>>local network (not the servers) as I think its easier to set the
>>hostname  on windows machines that way without having to rely or hope
>>that the netbios name  is set the same which can cause many problems.
>>This works great and helps maintain your hostnames and DNS records in
>>sync across your network like Whatever stated.
>>
>>You CAN override or basically 'ignore' this DHCP server sent
>>parameter on the client end with the -h and -R.
>>
>>There are more DHCP server options that can be sent down the wire to
>>the  client.  Anyone interested read the dhcpd and dhcpcd man pages or
>>search Google for "dhcpd.conf" and "options" search goolge or even the
>>dhcpd man page
>>
>>On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Changing our own config is no problem.  But the main issue is, should
>>>we  allow a public utility type dhcp to change our hostname?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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