[Bassetlug mailing] Computer name missing in DNS

[Rev Mark Pengelly]

This is a lack of a WINS server I think. Can be sorted with a manual
hosts files, but on this occasion I wouldn't simply us the IP
addresses...?

Mark



On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 17:16 +0000, MJ.Wells wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a router that is a DHCP server. I am running a number of Windows and
> Linux machines that use it to obtain their addresses, which all do
> successfully. However, although the Windows machines show their hostnames in
> the DNS records all the Linux ones (which  bear in mind do successfully
> obtain an IP address) do not and are only listed as 'UNKNOWN'.
> 
> This means that I cannot address any of the Linux machines by hostname, but
> have to use their IP addresses after looking them up manually in the router
> webpage for its attached devices.
> 
> The Linux machines run Mandrake, RedHat and Ubuntu of several different ages
> and versions. I have set the hostname in the HOSTNAME and DHCP client files.
> 
> Anyone got any ideas about how I can remedy this?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
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