Re: Setting hostname with DHCP

[Michael Ash <mash@econs.umass.edu>]

> > > The dhclient script is broken; it doesn't do the
> > > hostname [or domain] properly.  It is probably
> > > fixable, but that script is a big mess.
> >
> > Should I move to a different DHCP-client program?
>
> Your message indicated that you were using dhcp-client.  Let me
> recommend dhcp3-client instead.
>
>   apt-get install dhcp3-client

Thank you very much for the suggestion, and I have been able
to fine-tune some of the performance of dhclient with the
new version.

However, my results with setting the hostname and domain
were no better with dhcp3 than with dhcp (v2).  Are there
parameters not listed in dhclient.conf that I should be
setting?  (Again, my desired behavior is that the DHCP
server set the hostname and the domain for my computer.)

> [Drift: I have not checked.  Which dhcp client is the new
> d-i installing by default?  I sure hope it is dhcp v3 and
> not dhcp v2!]

Since my install was from a recent iso from debian.org, I
would guess that version 2 is the default.

Best,

Michael