[Dnsmasq-discuss] About hostname with hyphens

[Reynir Björnsson]

> In my opinion, multiple hostnames should be accepted. [...]
> 
> In my case I like to add the installation year in the hostname, but for 
> usability I also use a generic alias as well. Precisely like in the 
> example I provided so "nas-2024" but also simply "nas". Both have a 
> value to me.I'm not too intimate with dhcp, but *usually* when you have multiple of 
the same option (e.g. dhcp option 12 "host name") they are concatenated. 
So in your example you would not get two host names "nas-2024" and "nas" 
but instead one "nas-2024nas" host name which is probably not what you 
meant.

Again, I may be missing some feature of dhcp.