[Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp-host option

[Simon Kelley]

Richard Bailey wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have dnsmasq running and it's running great. When I had my client 
> machine as Windows XP the dhcp-host option worked and gave the ip for 
> the host I'd defined in the /etc/hosts file.
> 
> Now my client is a Ubuntu 6.06 machine and it has the same hostname, but 
> it doesn't get the ip I've assigned. What's different about how Linux 
> does a DHCP request that causes this and how can I fix it so that it works?
> 
> Note the hostname command in Ubuntu gives the proper hostname but the 
> hostname -f command returns localhost. I tried to adjust this but some X 
> and other networking stuff stopped working.
> 

I don't think that the default DHCP client on Ubuntu send the host name 
unless you configure it.

Try editing /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf and adding

send host-name "<hostname>"

HTH

Simon.