Getting hostname from DHCP on FC2 fails

[kama]

Hi,

On my home network i'm unable to get the hostname set via DHCP on my new Fedora Core 2 installation. It's working fine for Redhat 8,9 and Fedora Core1 from that same machine. The funny thing is that i'm also able to get the hostname set from the DHCP-server at work. At work it's a very old version of DHCP - at home it's the newest version running on a Fedora Core 1 box.

I've tried reconfiguring my DHCP-server but nothing seems to work. Does anyone have any suggestions? What has changed in FC2 that makes a difference for a DHCP-server running on FC1?

[ghenry]

Can you post your /etc/dhcpd.conf ??

[kama]

/etc/dhcpd.conf
<pre>
ddns-update-style none;
subnet 10.0.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option domain-name "xxx-yyy.dk";
option netbios-node-type 8;
option netbios-name-servers 10.0.1.2;
option domain-name-servers 10.0.1.2;
option routers 10.0.1.2;
range dynamic-bootp 10.0.1.18 10.0.1.253;
host grenaa {
hardware ethernet 00:E0:18:F9:6A:51;
fixed-address 10.0.1.18;
}
}
</pre>

[MHMustang]

see the link please
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/derek_pienaar/ddns/

mustang

[kama]

I don't need DDNS. This is when having fixed hostnames in DNS.

[kama]

The problem was a missing reverse record for the hostname in DNS. This means that the "setting hostname" during network startup now makes a reverse lookup and requires an answer.