Re: DHCP reserve IPs

From: Peter Eddy (petere_at_atg.com)
Date: 04/30/04

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    Matthew Saltzman wrote:

    >>
    >>You are correct. It complains about duplicate hostnames.
    >>
    >>If you slightly change the hostname, for one section, it should work. I
    >>know it doesn't force the hostname onto the machine. Because, when a
    >>physical machine name is changed and the MAC is the same we still get
    >>these addresses pushed out to the machine. I think you have another
    >>option for that called server-name.
    >>
    >>Hope this helps,
    >
    >
    > Thanks for the tip. I'll try it next chance I have.

    That's what I do but there's a better way, unfortunately I don't know
    what it is right now. My company uses DHCP which is set up so that you
    tell the DHCP server what your host name is and it updates the DNS
    server with the dynamically assigned IP it gives you. Pretty much
    eliminates the need for static IPs and it's really easy to set up on the
    client side, at least on Linux. I don't think it works on Windows. I'll
    try to find out what they're doing and post back to the list.

    Peter 

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