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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:14 pm    Post subject: Using dhcpcd to 'educate' DNS about hostname Reply with quote

Maybe this is obvious to many of you, but it took me awhile to figure it out, so I thought I'd post it for others.

The problem I had was that after migrating from SuSE to Gentoo at work, the company DNS servers no longer recognized the name of my machine, making it impossible for me to have mail routed properly and a host of other problems. The server management was inaccessable to me, so I couldn't have them fix it. But somehow DNS figured out who I was before on its own. After a lot of googling I came to the conclusion it was the dhcpcd daemon that was had been informing it. Here's what finally worked for me:

(1) Modify /etc/conf.d/net so it has the following line:
Code:

dhcpcd_eth0="-R -N -h your.fully.qualified.hostname"


The -R tells it to leave /etc/resolv.conf alone
The -N tells it to leave /etc/ntp.conf alone

Kill dhcpcd if its already running, and restart it this way:
Code:

# dhcpcd -n -R -N -h your.fully.qualified.hostname

If you look in /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info you should see your hostname as you specified it. After this, try
Code:

# dig your.fully.qualified.hostname

and it should show up.

-Jeff
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moving to Docs, Tips & Tricks.

Thanks puggy.
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