[ahi at itp.tugraz.at: Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS]

[Michael Tautschnig]

FYI

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From: Andreas Hirczy <ahi at itp.tugraz.at>
To: Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org>
Subject: Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:26:47 +0200
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Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org> writes:

>>
>>> Hmm, Usually, you can boot very well even if the hostname is not set -  
>>> you just need to tftp server address.
>> well the dns name has been set to that address in BIND
>> DHCP entry is like:
>>
>>        group {
>>               # PXE-specific configuration directives
>>               next-server tftpserver;
>>               filename "linux-install/pxelinux.0";
>>                       # You need an entry like this for every host
>>               # unless you're using dynamic addresses
>>                host vm00 {
>>                hardware ethernet 00:0C:xx:xx:xx:xx;
>>                fixed-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
>>                }
>>        }
>>
>
> Well, you don't set a name here, at least not one for the client to see; try
> adding 
>
> host-name "vm00";
>
> after your fixed-address line, that might help.

I do not use the 'host-name' clause - just have 'use-host-decl-names on;'
once in the group definition (dhcp3).

Andreas
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