HOSTNAME from DNS name server

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 09:22 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 16:50 +0200, Pieter Donche wrote:
> > > An alternative might be to set the hostname locally based on information
> > > already in the DNS.
> 
> I've had a closer look at dhclient-script, and it looks like it will set
> the hostname for you *anyway* - you just have to make sure that there is
> no hostname already set. That is, it will not override an existing
> hostname.

You could always write your own "hook" script to get your desired
result.  See dhclient-script for the gory details.

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