Re: CENTOS DHCP Server and windows computer/host name ISSUE

[Steve Thompson <smt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Phil Savoie wrote:

> 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;
> }

The way that I always do it is:

host foobar {
 	hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;
 	fixed-address hostname.domain.org;
}

and rely on the DNS to supply the fixed IP address. This works for Linux, 
Windows XP, Vista and 7, and OS X.

Steve
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