ipconfig: document DHCP hostname and DNS record
authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:02:44 +0000 (16:02 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 3 Jun 2010 10:18:18 +0000 (03:18 -0700)
Now it's possible to update the DNS record for $HOST_NAME with

ip=::::$HOST_NAME::dhcp

CC: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt

index 3ba0b945aaf862fc1c08a9c1a7f2ea04b0653486..f2430a7974e1655b3cdbb27b79eb801597ac6059 100644 (file)
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>
 
   <hostname>   Name of the client. May be supplied by autoconfiguration,
                but its absence will not trigger autoconfiguration.
+               If specified and DHCP is used, the user provided hostname will
+               be carried in the DHCP request to hopefully update DNS record.
 
                Default: Client IP address is used in ASCII notation.