dhcp client name not transmitted

Hi!

I have a dhcp network with a webserver and severa linux audnwindows
clients.

dhcp is made by the router, so far. When I try to ping the webserver
machine from one of the windows hosts I get an "host not known" error.

The webserver has /etc/HOSTNAME set to "name", and I thought it would
transmit that to the dhcp network.

What am I doing wrong?

THanks!


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upro wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a dhcp network with a webserver and severa linux audnwindows
> clients.
>
> dhcp is made by the router, so far. When I try to ping the webserver
> machine from one of the windows hosts I get an "host not known" error.
>
> The webserver has /etc/HOSTNAME set to "name", and I thought it would
> transmit that to the dhcp network.
>
> What am I doing wrong?


That's not enough. You have to:

a) add the webserver record into the hosts file
in the windows computers (cannot remember the exact
location, maybe \winnt\drivers\etc\hosts), or

b) add a DNS proxy, e.g. dnsmasq, and point all
windows computers to it.

HTH

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Tauno Voipio
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location is "%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts'
maybe, also check on the Linux system the file /etc/sysconfig/network --
check to see if the DHCP_HOSTNAME variable is populated with the system name

"Tauno Voipio" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Jk3ld.260$(E-Mail Removed)...
> upro wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a dhcp network with a webserver and severa linux audnwindows
> > clients.
> >
> > dhcp is made by the router, so far. When I try to ping the webserver
> > machine from one of the windows hosts I get an "host not known" error.
> >
> > The webserver has /etc/HOSTNAME set to "name", and I thought it would
> > transmit that to the dhcp network.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> That's not enough. You have to:
>
> a) add the webserver record into the hosts file
> in the windows computers (cannot remember the exact
> location, maybe \winnt\drivers\etc\hosts), or
>
> b) add a DNS proxy, e.g. dnsmasq, and point all
> windows computers to it.
>
> HTH
>
> --
>
> Tauno Voipio
> tauno voipio (at) iki fi
>

"Overbey" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> location is "%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts'
> maybe, also check on the Linux system the file /etc/sysconfig/network --
> check to see if the DHCP_HOSTNAME variable is populated with the system name

.... well, we run Slackware, and there's no such file as
"sysconfig/network". The closest is /etc/networks, which looks very
similar to /etc/hosts...


>
> "Tauno Voipio" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:Jk3ld.260$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> upro wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > I have a dhcp network with a webserver and severa linux audnwindows
>> > clients.
>> >
>> > dhcp is made by the router, so far. When I try to ping the webserver
>> > machine from one of the windows hosts I get an "host not known" error.
>> >
>> > The webserver has /etc/HOSTNAME set to "name", and I thought it would
>> > transmit that to the dhcp network.
>> >
>> > What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>
>> That's not enough. You have to:
>>
>> a) add the webserver record into the hosts file
>> in the windows computers (cannot remember the exact
>> location, maybe \winnt\drivers\etc\hosts), or
>>
>> b) add a DNS proxy, e.g. dnsmasq, and point all
>> windows computers to it.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> --
>>
>> Tauno Voipio
>> tauno voipio (at) iki fi
>>
>
>

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