Michael Ash said on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:52:09PM -0400: > Dear list, > > I have scoured the web and even read the generally helpful > Chapter 10 - Network Configuration from Debian Reference > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html, > but I cannot figure out how to set hostname and domain using > dhcp. > > On my box, "Linux debian 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 > CEST 2002 i586 unknown," DHCP works fine in that it gets an > ip address and even an associated name for the computer, but > "hostname" returns "debian", "hostname -d" returns nothing, > and "hostname --fqdn" returns "debian". The dhclient script is broken; it doesn't do the hostname properly. It is probably fixable, but that script is a big mess. M
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