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On 9/4/06, Simon Williams <systemparadox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > LOL- asking for help is so useful, but only because it means I'll find > the answer myself shortly afterwards. Yea, that always happens, nothing like asking the question to *realise* the answer your self :-) > > The reason 192.168.39.1 was appearing was that for some reason (like- > "I'm stupid") I had put that in for the server in /etc/hosts instead of > 192.168.38.1. Other than that dhcpd was working fine. Any reason you are listing it in /etc/hosts when you have a fully working local dns? My DNS has all my static servers and systems listed as well as all the automatic ones that dhcpd fills in for me. > > As for the link between the two, it seems that dhcpcd doesn't send the > hostname along with the request by default. Which explains why I have an > entry for the windows machine, but not the linux ones. Though one of the > linux machines had its name in the dhcpd logs a few times- can't work > out why. Perhap someone could shed some light on this. Did you use a different dhcp client that time? dhclient, pump etc. -- Robin Cornelius http://www.byteme.org.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html