Re: DHCP startup problems

From: JF Mezei (jfmezei.spamnot_at_istop.com)
Date: 07/22/03 

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 11:14:41 -0400

"John E. Malmberg" wrote:
> There appears to be a way to tell the DHCP server what hostname you have
> so that it can update a DNS server. I have not looked at how to do that
> either.

Yep, with TCPIP 5.3, the DHCP server has the ability. You can give it the
equivalent of a template to use for a host name and it will dynamically
generate a host name which gets transmitted to the DNS server and will get
zapped once the lease expires.

I haven't tested static allocations to see if you can have a static host name
associated with a static IP address (associated to a MAC address), but I
supposed it would also be possible. (although in that case, while it may help
centralise management, I am not sure it would really be worth it.

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