Re: setting alias for DHCP client

2002-04-02 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The main motive for this is that it should then be possible for the > > DNS server to use this information. Long shot? Better go talk to our > > network admin? > > only way DNS server could is if you managed to have the dhcp server > send DN

Re: setting alias for DHCP client

2002-04-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > The main motive for this is that it should then be possible for the > DNS server to use this information. Long shot? Better go talk to our > network admin? > only way DNS server could is if you managed to have the dhcp server send DNS updates (yes this is possible). Why does your machine

setting alias for DHCP client

2002-04-02 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Dear .debs, I would like to let our DHCP server know that my machine goes by more than one hostname. I already send the host-name, but would like to add something like host-name-alias so it knows host and alias are the same machine in a different guise. Is there any parameter in /etc/dhclient.co