Sending DHCP client hostname

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Mon Nov 8 22:00:32 UTC 2004


On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:13:03PM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote:

> Is there a way to tell dhclient to send the hostname as set on bootup, 
> rather than having to specify the hostname in another place?

Not currently, no.  I've been meaning to patch it, but have had other
priorities.

If someone could contribute a patch to do this, that would be great.
It's a long-standing feature request:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=151820

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 - mdz




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