-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frederic Lepied wrote:
>>>The only hack to achieve something like choosing a hostname that will >>>be valid on your network, is to use zeroconf by setting a hostname in >>>.local. >> >>What about if your server supports Dynamic DNS (ie DHCP server makes >>entries in your DNS server)? And what about if the DHCP server is set to >>assign IPs according to MAC address and the DNS server has static >>mappings for IP to hostname (effectively mapping a name to a MAC address)? > > > Yes it's supported but I wanted to say that without network > infrastructure you can't choose your hostname. I still think there is a problem here, since the only way to set your hostname would be by not using the hostname from dhcp (ie setting it in /etc/sysconfig/...), and the only way to resolve the name is with tmdns. But, this does not mean that the name needs to be hardcoded in /etc/tmdns.conf, since tmdns will always use `hostname`.local, which should be right by the time tmdns starts up. The advantage is that the user does not have to worry about the tmdns config if something else changes? Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+Z2qYrJK6UGDSBKcRAgFeAJ9kYS+Ogp7B4V5PtaZ9KV93uD1tugCfZrHd y+SlhfVydD9TnBQKwRNcOuo= =7Z2w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
