See inline, please
linux-crazy wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> We are running few Centos5.4 and windows 2003 instance on CENTOS XEN
> virtualized environment , all the guest are getting the
> IP/NETWORK/GATEWAY setting from the DHCP Server running on CENTOS 5
> server and the DNS configured on the windows 2003 server.
>
> All of the CENTOS Guests are getting the IP and the host name as per
> the DNS forward look up configured. For example If the CENTOS guest1
> get x.y.z.1 as an IP and it gets the host name as machine1.example.com
> <http://machine1.example.com> and so on .
>
>
> But none of the windows guest is getting the hostname or computer name
> from the DHCP server even though its getting the ip from the centos DHCP
> server properly , instead all the windows guest are setting up the
> hostname or computername as ORGNAME-withsomenumbers . eg:
> techsoft-342156 as a computer name .
>
> See at present we are not doing any static mapping of IP/HOSTNAME based
> on windows GUEST MAC address. So statically mapping the hostname/ip with
> guest MAC address is out of question now.
>
>
> Is there is any configuration to be tuned on dhcpd.conf or any files or
> parameter to be tuned on windows 2003 guests to get the hostname from
> the DHCP/DNS . i heard about some option like "*dhcpd opt 12*" on
> windows regisrty level will do the job , But am blank how to get things
> done .
>
>
>
>
> Also is there is a way to tune CENTOS DHCP Server to lease the ip to the
> dhcp client in uniform order rather it leases randomly .
>
I use mac address reservations in the /etc/dhcpd.conf file, like so:
host linsrv {
hardware ethernet 00:50:fc:57:5c:db;
option host-name "linsrv";
fixed-address 192.168.100.254;
}
>
> If any one throws me some light on how to get this done it will be
> really great full for me .
>
> Regards,
> Lingu
>
HTH,
Phil
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