Debian 8.0 client : how to get hostname from DHCP server?

[Nicolas Kovacs <info@microlinux.fr>]

Hi,

I'm a Slackware user currently fiddling with Debian, and I'm
experimenting with central hostname management. On my network's server,
I have Dnsmasq running with the following configuration:

# /etc/dnsmasq.conf
domain-needed
bogus-priv
interface=eth1
dhcp-range=192.168.2.100,192.168.2.200,24h
local=/microlinux.lan/
domain=microlinux.lan
expand-hosts
no-resolv
# Nerim
server=195.5.209.150
server=194.79.128.150
# Google
#server=8.8.8.8
#server=8.8.4.4
dhcp-host=00:1F:D0:AE:EC:FE,alphamule,192.168.2.2
dhcp-host=00:1E:C9:43:A7:BF,bernadette,192.168.2.3
dhcp-host=00:1D:09:15:4A:D8,raymonde,192.168.2.4
dhcp-host=00:1E:C9:42:84:7B,amandine,192.168.2.5
dhcp-host=D8:50:E6:22:0A:D8,6C:71:D9:8E:2F:CF,slackbook-pro,192.168.2.6
dhcp-host=00:19:E0:83:3A:C1,00:14:22:43:7E:60,gustave,192.168.2.7
dhcp-host=00:21:85:CD:7E:10,buildbox,192.168.2.8
dhcp-host=88:51:FB:15:3A:4A,hp-officejet,192.168.2.252
dhcp-host=00:11:32:26:63:A5,nas,192.168.2.253

Most of the client PC's are also running Slackware. None of these
machines has any static hostname configuration, they're all configured
like this:

# /etc/HOSTNAME
localhost.localdomain

# /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

While the client PCs boot, their respective hostnames are sent to them
by Dnsmasq. On my workstation, for example, the result looks like this:

[kikinovak@alphamule:~] $ hostname
alphamule.microlinux.lan
[kikinovak@alphamule:~] $ hostname -s
alphamule
[kikinovak@alphamule:~] $ hostname -d
microlinux.lan
[kikinovak@alphamule:~] $ hostname --fqdn
alphamule.microlinux.lan

Now I installed a minimal Debian 8.0 Jessie on one of my sandbox
machines (raymonde.microlinux.lan) for testing purposes. I tried to get
rid of any hardcoded hostname configuration on the client side (in
/etc/hostname and /etc/hosts), but there seems to be no way I can
configure the client to receive hostname information from the server.
All I get is localhost.localdomain.

Any idea how I could do that?

Cheers from the sunny South of France,

Niki Kovacs
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