[NTLUG:Discuss] dhclient problems

[Eric Schnoebelen]

Chris Cox writes:
- Carl Haddick wrote:
- > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:10:31AM -0500, kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
- > 
- >>I've got some RH9.0 systems that are runing dhclient, and they don't work
-  
- >>so well. :-(
- >>
- >>While they register themselves just fine, to a MS DHCP server, if you try
-  a 
- >>forward lookup (e.g. "host my-comp-name"), you get an error back about 
- >>unknown server.  BTW, the computer has a static hostname, not a DHCP 
- >>assigned one.
-
- Specifically, Kevin is talking about RH's dhclient in that it CAN'T
- make the dynamic update to the Microsoft DNS server.  

	Try making the following setting in your dhclient.conf
file.  It should do what you wish, although I've not tried it (I
have my dhcp server do the DNS updates.)

		send fqdn.server-update on;

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