Re: DHCP hostname
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 07:22:56PM +0000, Sam Halliday 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.
Forget where I saw this but it was somewhere in Woody dhcp docs:
The hostname will only be set by DHCP if it isn't already set.
Might have been an option or something. Look in /etc/init.d for hostname
it is set. I don't have a debian system handy to check.
Brian
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