This one time, at band camp, nate said: > martin f krafft said: > > something just happened that i've never seen before. a client obtained a > > > in my experience it is normal for a dhcp client to change it's > hostname when recieving a dhcp address. it's been a long while > since I used a debian system in a dynamic dhcp enviornment(most of > my enviornments are statically assigned ips via MACs with DHCP just > makes it easier and consistant), but in SuSE and redhat at least they > by default change their hostnames to what the dhcp server says. though > it is usually to a useful hostname that is the hostname of the IP in > DNS, but I suppose a dhcp server could override what the hostname > is sent out as. > > nate
I've seen it change in the logs, but the hostname on the console always stayed the same. Odd. Steve -- BOFH excuse #142: new guy cross-connected phone lines with ac power bus.
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