[ale] Strange ISC DHCP behavior...?

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:00:04 -0500
"Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is possible that th3e printer network software doesn't support host
> supplied name with dhcp. I've seen a few devices where dhcp required
> being told on the client end "yes, use the name I put on the line
> here".
> 
> How are the machines getting a name at all? I'm asuming they get it
> from their internal settings.

Currently each machine has a hostname set (the printer does, too).  So
far, the DHCP dæmon is receiving all the hostnames (including the
printer)...

Strangely, I walked away for 20 minutes and came back, and _now_ there
are DDNS entries in the lease file and the printer has a name on the
network.  Very strange.  I was rebooting the printer and bouncing DHCPd
for twenty minutes prior to that, when everything _else_ got addresses,
trying to figure out what was wrong before I sent something here...

I don't know what would cause such a delay; all the other clients were
added by DHCPd upon their first lease renewals.  *shrugs*

	--- Mike

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