Re: My hostname not being registered via DHCP

From: UncleStoner (unclestoner_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: 1 Feb 2005 05:38:11 -0800

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I should have provided more high-level detail in my original post. I'm
actually on a corporate LAN, which hosts mostly windows boxes and whose
various services (DHCP, DNS, etc) are presumably provided by Windows as
well.

I'm one of the few people in this environment trying to get a Linux box
up. My Windows boxes all have hostnames that I assign them, and they
all use DHCP. Somehow, they are able to get their names resolvable on
the network. I assumed that they did this by sending their names to
the DHCP server when they requested an IP (and all the other stuff a
DHCP client requests from a DHCP server), and then the DHCP server did
some magic, in conjunction with the DNS server, to make those hostnames
resolvable.

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