DHCP Hostname Entry in DNS
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I have a Windows server that runs both the DNS server and DHCP server for my network. When I added a Slackware box, I needed the Windows server to update DNS when the slack box obtained a DHCP lease. Windows was already setup to do this, but the default slack install didn't send the correct information for the Windows DHCP server to setup the DNS A record. Here is what I did to get slack to work:
First, slack uses dhcpcd for a dhcp client. Looking through the options and testing revealed that all I needed to do was send a:
-h [hostname]
with the dhcpcd command. In order to get slack to do this, I had to edit:
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
and set:
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=[hostname]
then:
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart
and everything worked!