[TriLUG] DNS + Linux +Windows

[Chris Knowles]

And, if you are in the graphical world or RH, you can even do it all
graphically.

Goto Hat->System Settings->Network

Edit the interface in question (probably eth0)

Under the DHCP settings there is a edit box for hostname.

This actually does the same thing (in the end) that Hedemark and Portzer
are opinting you too, but Linux is the land of the many paths to
nerdvana.

CJK
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 16:22, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 16:13, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> > 
> > (This works on Red Hat... I don't know what distro you're running so 
> > YMMV)
> > 
> > Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network and add a line that looks like:
> > DHCP_HOSTNAME="mybox.mydomain.com"
> > 
> > You can start restarting services, or reboot (probably easier if this 
> > is just a workstation).
> > 
> 
> "service network restart" should restart the necessary pieces if I
> understand that correctly.
> 
> --Jeremy
>  
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Chris Knowles <chrisk at trilug.org>