[Dnsmasq-discuss] Why doesn't this machine have a name?

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:28:34PM +0000, Simon Kelley wrote:
> On 30/01/12 15:43, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> >... I think I may have found the problem, the system that *doesn't*
> >provide a name is running wicd rather than network-manager. Maybe wicd
> >doesn't provide a name to DHCP.  I'll investigate.
> >
> 
> If you don't want to mess around with the client you can name the
> machine at the dnsmasq end by adding
> 
> dhcp-host=acer-aspire,00:25:56:6d:b0:ce
> 
> 
> to /etc/dnsmasq.conf
> 
Yes, I do that for one other machine that doesn't annouce itself
properly already.

Thanks.

-- 
Chris Green