Hello Bogdan, On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:00:26 -0400 Bogdan Calmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use debian stable (sarge) and the dhcp3-client package. I register > my hostname by adding > > send hostname "foo"; > > in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. Everything works fine but for some reason > the DHCP/DNS server (which I don't control) loses the hostname > registration and the next day I need to connect to my machine using > the IP. Once I logon, I do > > ifup --force eth0 > > and the hostname is registered again. This is obviously not nice, so > is it possible to: > > 1. configure dhclient to send the hostname at a certain interval? > 2. configure dhclient to send just the hostname? > 3. control the interval at which dhclient renews the lease and set it > to a few hours so that the hostname is sent more frequently? /etc/dhclient.conf ... send dhcp-lease-time 3600; ... > Jörg -- Jörg Schütter http://www.schuetter.org/joerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lug-untermain.de/
