hi there, ok, i know there have been many bugs (for some reason, all closed) applied against this issue... but i have found no solution at all to it in either the archives nor the bug reports, and i was wondering if someone could help:
i am on a DHCP-served network and the server will always give out a hostname, but debian completely ignores that hostname; preferring instead to use the hostname "debian" which it set up during the initial install. i would like my dhcp client to set my hostname when the server sends it to me. now i know this would be trivial to fix in a local script (for example with dhcpcd, using -H and -D flags will set both my domainname and hostname; and i suppose i could use a simple grep to get info from /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases when using dhclient)... what i was wondering is if somebody could please tell me how to fix this in the "correct debian way" and also, i would be very interested to hear why setting the host/domainname from the DHCP server is not the default. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel
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