I have just set up a diskless client to one of my machines (for mythtv)
and have a few, dumb, problems. Any help would be appreciated.
The machine host name is wrong. I had assumed that the kernel picked
up its IP address with dhcp, and then went to either /etc/hosts or to
dns to get the host name. The machine has the correct IP address,
and /etc/hosts and dns both have the correct forward and reverse
translations, but the machine gets the hostname mythtv rather
than mythtv-fe.
1) Is there someplace else that the hostname is stored?
The very first line in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is
HOSTNAME=`'bin/hostname`
so it has figured it out by that time.
Initially I was not able to get out to net from the client.
I did a
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
and I can now get out USING IP ADDRESSES.
2) I seem to remember that there is some preferred place to put this
echo command, but cant remember where. I can put it anywhere,
but would like it where it belongs (and where I can find it later).
3) From the outside I can ping the client with either name or IP address.
From the client, I can ping, and do ssh, and whatever with IP addresses,
I can't do them with host names. The /etc/resolv.conf is the same as on
my other machines, but nslookup just hangs.
Im confused on this one, any thoughts? Whats missing?
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Reg.Clemens
reg@xxxxxxx
