Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:34:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > | If you do DHCP, it gets a hostname from the server, or sometimes falls > | back to a bad default of "localhost". This is an area that needs more > | work still, but in the daily builds you will be prompted for a hostname > | after you reboot if the installer didn't set one. > > This setting the hostname from DHCP didn't seem to work properly in my > case Turns out that version of base-config is not in testing yet. Hmm, is anything propigating to testing these days? > the installer set the hostname to localhost, and base-config > didn't prompt to change it. My DHCP server definitely gives out > hostnames correctly, I can see it in /etc/dhcpc/*.info, but the > installer evidently didn't pick up on it. (This was with a daily build > which I compiled myself a few days ago, and base-config came from a > Debian mirror last updated just before the compromise last month.) Apparently I was wrong, netcfg does not try to use the hostname returned by the dhcp server. It prompts for a hostname at low priority when using dhcp. -- see shy jo
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