reassign 657860 debian-reference thanks Hi Markus, Thanks for your report, reassigning it to the accurate package. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/pr01#_bug_reports_on_this_document Regards David Le 29/01/2012 09:29, Markus Hiereth a écrit : > Package: www.debian.org > Severity: wishlist > > > Hello, > > I had the problem of informing the DHCP-server (which is a Fritz Box 7170) about my computer's name. > > In section 5.5.4 of > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_network_connection_method_legacy > > it is suggested to edit /etc/network/interfaces introducing a line with the hostname > > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > hostname "mymachine" > > This did not work for me having the following packages installed > > isc-dhcp-client 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze3 > isc-dhcp-common 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze3 > > (I did not replace isc-dhcp-client with dhcp3-client as suggested in section "5.4.1. The DHCP connection with the Ethernet" > because I assumed that the isc-dhcp-client is the newer package) > > > To solve the problem, I had to edit /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf, outcommenting the entries > > send host-name > send dhcp-client-identifier > > and introducing the respective name and MAC-addresse. > > Yours sincerely > Markus > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 6.0.3 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 > Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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