On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 07:22:56PM +0000, Sam Halliday wrote: > 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.
Forget where I saw this but it was somewhere in Woody dhcp docs: The hostname will only be set by DHCP if it isn't already set. Might have been an option or something. Look in /etc/init.d for hostname it is set. I don't have a debian system handy to check. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
