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booncode

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Registered: 2011-12-12

Posts: 2

networkmanager: hostname to local ip

Hi!

I'm using networkmanager to connect to my router and I would like it to register my hostname (myhost) to the ip address that has been set up by the dhcp.

I recently switched from ubuntu to arch linux and I could configure everything as I like it. I would really like to have myhost resolve to my local ip address 192.168.1.xxx NOT to localhost 127.0.0.1.
I noticed this behaviour as I tried to use one of my scripts (I even made a PKGBUILD file to install it the arch way). I normally used the hostname to get my current (local) ip address... (gethostbyname).
It makes no sense to set "myhost" to 127.0.0.1 because I can always use this address to refere to localhost.

I think it worked when I used net-auto-wireless & netcfg...

Can anyone help me with this? I'm really desperate

rc.conf

LOCALE="de_AT.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Vienna"
KEYMAP="de-latin1"
CONSOLEFONT="default8x16"
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

MODULES=(ath5k acpi_cpufreq pciehp intel_agp drm i915 uvcvideo fuse)

UDEV_TIMEOUT=30

USEDMRAID="no"

USEBTRFS="no"

USELVM="no"

HOSTNAME="myhost"

interface=
address=
netmask=
broadcast=
gateway=


NETWORK_PERSIST="no"

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng crond dbus networkmanager)

dhclient.conf

send host-name "<hostname>"
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
	domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name;

dhcpcd.conf

# A sample configuration for dhcpcd.
# See dhcpcd.conf(5) for details.

# Inform the DHCP server of our hostname for DDNS.
hostname myhost
# To share the DHCP lease across OSX and Windows a ClientID is needed.
# Enabling this may get a different lease than the kernel DHCP client.
# Some upstream DHCP servers may also require a ClientID, such as FRITZ!Box.
#clientid

# A list of options to request from the DHCP server.
option domain_name_servers, domain_name, domain_search, host_name
option classless_static_routes
# Most distributions have NTP support.
option ntp_servers
# Respect the network MTU.
option interface_mtu
# A ServerID is required by RFC2131.
require dhcp_server_identifier

# A hook script is provided to lookup the hostname if not set by the DHCP
# server, but it should not be run by default.
nohook lookup-hostname
noipv4ll

NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

[main]
plugins=keyfile

[keyfile]
hostname=myhost

NetworkManager/system-connections/xyz...

[connection]
id=Tele2_Easybox (automatisch)
uuid=0771bb1f-3554-4545-8afb-efde3b91fd2f
type=802-11-wireless

[802-11-wireless]
ssid=Tele2_Easybox
mode=infrastructure
mac-address=<mac-address...>
security=802-11-wireless-security

[802-11-wireless-security]
key-mgmt=wpa-psk
auth-alg=open
psk=<key...>

[ipv4]
method=auto

[ipv6]
method=auto

Thanks in advance for any help...