host statement...

David W. Hankins David_Hankins at isc.org
Mon Mar 2 17:53:04 UTC 2009


On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:52:53PM -0600, E Johnson wrote:
> In the last little while I've been following conversations on the list that 
> seem to say that you can setup a fixed address by using the MAC instead of 
> the hostname as the identifier.

Host statements do not match based upon hostname, you can't use the
hostname as an identifier, unless you're using DHCPv6's
"host-identifier" field.  In DHCPv4, host records match only on
hardware or client identifier ("uid").

-- 
David W. Hankins	"If you don't do it right the first time,
Software Engineer		     you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.		-- Jack T. Hankins
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