Re: How to send hostname through DHCP more often.
On Wednesday 31 Aug 2005 17:00, Bogdan Calmac wrote:
> I use debian stable (sarge) and the dhcp3-client package. I register
> my hostname by adding
>
> send hostname "foo";
>
> in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. Everything works fine but for some reason
> the DHCP/DNS server (which I don't control) loses the hostname
> registration and the next day I need to connect to my machine using
> the IP. Once I logon, I do
>
> ifup --force eth0
>
> and the hostname is registered again. This is obviously not nice, so
> is it possible to:
>
> 1. configure dhclient to send the hostname at a certain interval?
> 2. configure dhclient to send just the hostname?
> 3. control the interval at which dhclient renews the lease and set it
> to a few hours so that the hostname is sent more frequently?
>
> Do you have any other suggestion for approaching this? Again, I cannot
> touch the server.
>
> In the worst case I would probably set a cron job to do "ifup --force eth0"
> :-(
I think the problem is that it should be "send host-name" instead of "send
hostname".
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