On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 09:16:07AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Joe Holden wrote: > > JH>Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > JH>> Doug Barton wrote: > JH>>> If you're talking about a laptop where you're not sure what the DHCP > JH>>> server is going to send you, then I have this in /etc/rc.local: > JH>> > JH>> Hi, Doug. > JH>> > JH>> What you think about adding a new feature to dhclient - Alternate IP > JH>> Configuration. This configuration can be specified in dhclient.conf > JH>> and take effect when a DHCP server not respond. MS Windows have a > JH>> similar feature. > JH>> > JH>Really I was hoping dhclient would have this sort of functionality where > JH>it would resolve the ip given and set that as hostname, as as far as im > JH>aware, isc-dhcpd will not send hostnames? > > Sure it does. On my machines I set hostname to "" in rc.conf and let > dhclient set it. Works fine.
Once upon a time I implemented some code to add a default_hostname variable to rc.conf which was then used by the startup scripts and dhclient-script to allow the local network to override the name if desired while insuring that the system had a name at all times (required for laptop use). I'd take patches to do this. -- Brooks P.S. hacking this into rc.local won't work longterm because addresses will be assigned in a totally different context.
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