dhcp evils

Neil Dugan fedora at butterflystitches.com.au
Thu Apr 21 02:06:39 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 23:21 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Joel wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > > Would someone tell me whether an FC3 installation running
> > > dhclient normally has a non-empty dhclient.conf?
> >
> > My FC2 box (which needs, I suppose, to become an FC4 box pretty soon)
> > has no dhclient.conf by default.
> >
> > man dhclient.conf on the same FC2 box indicates that dynamic dns
> > functionality is still in the experimental stages, and that it "probably
> > doesn't do what you want it to". I wonder if there has been any
> > improvement in FC3.
> 
> FC3 says the same thing.
> So far as I  know, no dynamic DNSing was being done.
> To the outside world, my hostname changed when my IP address did.
> "stmike" is a purely local phenomenon.
> 
> Anyone out there which FC3 and dhclient that will tell us
> whether you have a dhclient.conf?
> 

I have just setup a DHCP & DNS for my local network.  I didn't use
dhclient.  I think the purpose of this is to inform a Dynamic DNS
provider if you IP address from your ISP changes, so that others on the
internet can find you when you internet IP address changes.


> -- 
> Mike   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
> "I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES.  *I* ONLY TURN UP ONCE."  --  Death
> 




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