Harland Christofferson wrote:
> Sam Halliday wrote:
[snip]
> >i am on a DHCP-served network and the server will always give out a
> >hostname, but debian completely ignores that hostname
[snip]
> can't you do this in /etc/dhcpd.conf? i think you have to assign
> a fixed ip addres ... something line
>
> host <yourhostname> {
> hardware ethernet <yourhostmacaddress>;
> fixed-address aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd;
> }yes, but i am on the client side (the server is already set up fine to do as you suggest)... the point is that debian completely ignores hostnames supplied by the server. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel
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