Like most DHCP implementations, the ISC DHCP server supports sending host names in response to a DHCP DISCOVERY message. The host name is sent when DHCP option 12 is requested by the client, and the name is derived from one of two locations:
1. The ISC DHCP server will look up the IP address in DNS
2. [...]
I attempted to upgrade my ISC DHCP installation to dhcp-4.1.1b1 this past weekend, and ran into the following configure error:
$ ./configure –prefix=/bits/software/dhcp-4.1.1b1
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… no
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the [...]
I use the ISC DHCP server to manage IP allocations at home, and to provide the pxegrub handoff location to new systems I’m building. Since my DHCP server has become rather important, I wanted to install it to a file system that was mirrored. To figure out how to do this, I read through the [...]
