Computer Shows up as "unknown" in Router

[Carthik Sharma]

On 10/29/05, Robbo <ml at the-view.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:19 -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a D-link router, and have three ubuntu boxes at home. When I
> > got the router management page and look at the DHCP clients that are
> > connected to the router, I see either "unknown" or " " as the name for
> > the ubuntu boxes. Managing these becomes a pain, as i have to resort
> > to finding out the MAC address to do this.
> >
> > The Winxp boxes have their designated names.
> >
> > The hostname for the ubuntu boxes are et, and they are not set to
> > "unknown" or " "
> >
> > Can someone help me name my ubuntu machines so that the router will
> > know them by name? Thank you.
> > Carthik.
>
> Have a look at the config file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf for the option
> send host-name.  For example...
>
> send host-name "foo.example.com"
>

I changed it to
send host-name "umberto"
and it works!!

Thanks

Note: Shouldn't things be so that the name in /etc/hostname
automatically gets sent when a DHCP request is sent? Is something
broken, worse, is this a BUG?

Regards,
Carthik.
>
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