HOSTNAME from DNS name server

[Pieter Donche]

> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 15:22 +0200, Michael Zoet wrote:
>> 1. your DNS Server needs to accept DNS zone updates from your DHCP server
>> 2. your DHCP server must send DNS zone updates to your DNS server
>> 3. (maybe) you need to tweak the file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
>
> All this will (may) fix the problem by making the DNS entry for an
> address match the hostname. It doesn't solve the problem of what
> hostname should be set locally, how those names should be set locally,
> or how hostnames get set on multiple machines.
>
> An alternative might be to set the hostname locally based on information
> already in the DNS.
>
> 1: For the addresses that will be used, make sure you have reverse
> lookups in your DNS. E.g.:
>
>    $ORIGIN 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
>    ...
>    201  IN A PTR host1.mydomain.
>    202  IN A PTR host2.mydomain.
>    203  IN A PTR host3.mydomain.
>    ...

$ dig +short -x XXX.YYY.ZZZ.UUU
with XXX.YYY.ZZZ.UUU an IP address in my subnet returns the correct 
fully qualified hostname ..

> 2: Use a DHCP exit hook to set the local hostname to the appropriate DNS
> name. The DHCP exit hooks are in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d
>
> Then every time your address is set with DHCP, the hostname will be set
> accordingly.

I tried
$ sudo vi /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/debug
and changed RUN to
RUN="yes"
then rebooted, but there is no file /tmp/dhclient-script.debug written (?)
also a file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script does not exist in Ubuntu 9.04 (?)
nor /sbin/dhclient.script. There is a file /etc/dhclient.conf
with a line
#script "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script"

If I uncomment this line, should i just make a file
/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script
containing 
( .MYDOMAIN being e.g. .denim.gim.org )
myname=`dig +short -x new_ip_address`
myhost=`basename $myname .MYDOMAIN`
hostname $myhost

and these instructions will be executed at every boot??

What must new_ip_address be? 
(sorry, couldn't get debug to produce output..)


>
> Look at the exit hook "debug" to find out what variables you have at
> your disposal - you probably want to use "new_ip_address". You can find
> out the relevant name by doing a reverse lookup of that address:
>
>   myname=`dig +short -x new_ip_address`
>
> You can reduce the name to just a hostname using basename:
>
>   myhost=`basename $myname .mydomain`
>
> If your addresses are in several domains you'll have to do something
> more complicated; you need to strip off everything after the first dot
> from the left.
>
> Then you can set the hostname:
>
>   hostname $myhost
>
> Remember to set your hostname *after* /etc/resolv.conf has been set up,
> because you need correct nameserver info to do the reverse lookup.
>
> If you don't want to fiddle with exit hooks, modify the client script
> instead - usually /sbin/dhclient.script or /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script,
> but settable in dhclient.conf.
>
> All this is for the ISC DHCP client; other clients should have similar
> features.
>
> Regards, K.
>
> PS: I've done DHCP hooks, but not to change the hostname, so the above
> is untested for that purpose.
>
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