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".<br>
<br>How are the machines getting a name at all? I'm asuming they get it from their internal settings.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/16 Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Am a bit surprised to not see anything as to _why_ this would happen,<br>
but perhaps someone has seen this before.<br>
<br>
I've a network where everything uses DHCP. The server is Ubuntu<br>
Intrepid, using ISC BIND9 and DHCP3 software. They're set up to talk<br>
to each other and do the whole DDNS thing so that when a machine gets<br>
an address, the machine's hostname is put in the DNS server.<br>
<br>
But, this isn't happening for my _printer_. It does so with everything<br>
else. Here's a snippet of the leases file:<br>
<br>
lease <a href="http://10.0.0.6" target="_blank">10.0.0.6</a> {<br>
starts 1 2008/11/17 00:47:07;<br>
ends 2 2008/11/18 00:47:07;<br>
cltt 1 2008/11/17 00:47:07;<br>
binding state active;<br>
next binding state free;<br>
hardware ethernet 00:19:66:60:7b:2e;<br>
set ddns-txt = "000a7c8ceb65f779bf14de88dc5c7257af";<br>
set ddns-fwd-name = "<a href="http://zest.spicerack.trausch.us" target="_blank">zest.spicerack.trausch.us</a>.";<br>
client-hostname "zest";<br>
}<br>
lease <a href="http://10.0.0.4" target="_blank">10.0.0.4</a> {<br>
starts 1 2008/11/17 00:49:15;<br>
ends 2 2008/11/18 12:49:15;<br>
cltt 1 2008/11/17 00:49:15;<br>
binding state active;<br>
next binding state free;<br>
hardware ethernet 00:04:00:21:45:89;<br>
uid "\001\000\004\000!E\211";<br>
client-hostname "e250dn";<br>
}<br>
lease <a href="http://10.0.0.2" target="_blank">10.0.0.2</a> {<br>
starts 1 2008/11/17 00:49:58;<br>
ends 2 2008/11/18 00:49:58;<br>
cltt 1 2008/11/17 00:49:58;<br>
binding state active;<br>
next binding state free;<br>
hardware ethernet 00:16:44:e9:0d:60;<br>
uid "\001\000\026D\351\015`";<br>
set ddns-txt = "31d4142b1c8f62d024ec624e80437a9990";<br>
set ddns-fwd-name = "<a href="http://rosemary.spicerack.trausch.us" target="_blank">rosemary.spicerack.trausch.us</a>.";<br>
client-hostname "rosemary";<br>
}<br>
<br>
"e250dn" is, of course, the printer. Rosemary is a WiFi-connected<br>
laptop running VIsta (not mine!) and zest is my wire-connected desktop<br>
running Ubuntu. The printer is a Lexmark E250dn, with seemingly<br>
typical Lexmark print/network controller firmware. I can't find any<br>
reason that the printer would not show up; its DHCP parameters<br>
(hostname, etc) are set, and the DHCP server *sees* them... it just<br>
doesn't add the name to BIND, I don't use DHCP reservations or any of<br>
that stuff.<br>
<br>
None of the machines have any special stanzas created for them, either,<br>
in the DHCP configuration file; it's all network-global configuration.<br>
So it should, I'd think, put everything in BIND.<br>
<br>
Anyway, has anyone seen this and maybe know of something obscure that<br>
would be causing it?<br>
<br>
--- Mike<br>
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