Package: dhcp3-client
Version: 3.1.3-2
Severity: wishlist
Please could you add this line:
send host-name "<hostname>";
to /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
Rationale: Certain ADSL routers have a useful feature of adding
hostnames to their DNS which makes it possible to "plug & play" DHCP
clients so that they can refer to each other by name without having to
set up static addresses and hosts files. The firmware on mine appears to
have a bug so that the DNS only works for DHCP clients which identify
their hostname, not for PCs where the name has been entered into the
router manually. On investigating why this was working with Ubuntu
but not with Debian I discovered the above line was what made the
difference.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dhcp3-client depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 3.2.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dhcp3-common 3.1.3-2 common files used by all the dhcp3
ii libc6 2.11.1-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
dhcp3-client recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dhcp3-client suggests:
pn avahi-autoipd <none> (no description available)
pn resolvconf <none> (no description available)
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf changed:
option rfc3442-classless-static-routes code 121 = array of unsigned integer 8;
send host-name "<hostname>";
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
domain-name, domain-name-servers, domain-search, host-name,
netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu,
rfc3442-classless-static-routes, ntp-servers;
-- debconf information:
dhcp3-client/dhclient-needs-restarting:
dhcp3-client/dhclient-script_moved:
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