host name
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Fri Jan 12 19:23:10 UTC 2007
Hai Tao wrote:
>but I still don't understand what is the hostname. for your example,
>laptop1a and laptop1b are actually the same computer, right? becuase
>they have the same mac address.
Near enough for this discussion - yes
> for the same computer, the hostname (the hostname of the computer
>itselft) is the same, be either laptop1a or laptop1b, or whatever
>something else. when this computer send a request, which statement
>will apply?
The client will use whatever it's configured to use.
> can you explain clearly what hostname is? is it the hostname of
>the requestor? no matter it is a windows, unix, printer or router?
>or it only has a meaning in the dhcpd.conf file?
It is the internal identifier used by the dhcp server - it does not
necessarily have any connection to the host name the client is known
as (or might use in any requests). It can be sent to the client if
required by using the (IIRC) use-host-decl-names statement.
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