Re: DHCP hostname

[Harland Christofferson <debian-user@zerocrossings.com>]

At Friday, 13 February 2004, Sam Halliday <samuel@ma.hw.ac.uk> wrote:

>hi there,
>
>ok, i know there have been many bugs (for some reason, all closed)
>applied against this issue... but i have found no solution at all to it
>in either the archives nor the bug reports, and i was wondering if
>someone could help:
>
>i am on a DHCP-served network and the server will always give out a
>hostname, but debian completely ignores that hostname; preferring
>instead to use the hostname "debian" which it set up during the initial
>install.
>
>i would like my dhcp client to set my hostname when the server sends it
>to me. now i know this would be trivial to fix in a local script (for
>example with dhcpcd, using -H and -D flags will set both my domainname
>and hostname; and i suppose i could use a simple grep to get info from
>/var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases when using dhclient)... what i was
>wondering is if somebody could please tell me how to fix this in the
>"correct debian way" and also, i would be very interested to hear why
>setting the host/domainname from the DHCP server is not the default
>cheers,
>Sam


can't you do this in /etc/dhcpd.conf? i think you have to assign 
a fixed ip addres ... something line

host <yourhostname> {
               hardware ethernet <yourhostmacaddress>;
               fixed-address aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd;
}


making appropriate substitutions.