tags 585799 + wontfix thanks On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:04:01PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > 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.
This is a variation of bug #151820. See it for all of the arguments for the current situation. regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
