[Dnsmasq-discuss] dhcp-host option

[Stephen Rose]

There's at least three bugs filed against Ubuntu on this issue.  I'm 
sure they'll fix it eventually.  They keep referring the problem 
upstream back to Debian.  If I remember correctly, Ubuntu tries to bring 
up ethernet before it has a hostname.

Steve


Richard Bailey wrote:
> Thanks, that worked, but is there a way that could pull the configured 
> hostname automatically instead of hardcoding it in the file?
> 
> I tried:
> send host-name "`hostname`";
> 
> but that didn't work.
> 
> - Thanks,
> Richard
> 
> On 7/31/06, *Simon Kelley* <simon at thekelleys.org.uk 
> <mailto:simon at thekelleys.org.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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