Bug#232237: DHCP & networking - a fix

[Oscar Bosman <oscarb@netspeed.com.au>]

Hi

I installed sarge on a box in a small home network.  One server provides 
DHCP, bind, internet gateway, etc.  After installing sarge I noticed I 
could not ping the other Debian machine (installed with woody) but I 
could ping the gateway and another box running Windows.  After a little 
investigation I made two changes that fixed the problem:
/etc/hosts was
127.0.0.1    peach   localhost
I removed the hostname so now /etc/hosts is
127.0.0.1    localhost


I added the following line to /etc/dhcpclient.conf
send host-name "peach";


I also had to do the same fix on the woody box.  Is this something the 
installer should have done?


Regards
Oscar