[TriLUG] dhcp issues

[Jon Fraley]

>From my linux box I can ping a windows box by name.

Jon

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:10, Jason Tower wrote:
> are you sure the dhcp clients are registering with DNS?  the windows 
> hosts might just be using wins/netbios names to resolve them to IP 
> addresses, not DNS.
> 
> jason
> 
> On Tuesday 20 July 2004 16:02, Jon Fraley wrote:
> > We have converted our network to dhcp.  The window clients seem to be
> > okay. However, in converting our linux(RHEL 3.0WS) to dhcp the linux
> > box will not register its name in dns.  It gets an IP okay, the
> > nameservers and searchdomain is correct.  I can ping the IP but not
> > the host name. What should I look for?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jon