Dazed_75 wrote:
> Found this in Man dhcp-options (5):
> option host-name string;
>
> This option specifies the name of the client. The name may
> or may not be qual‐
> ified with the local domain name (it is preferable to
> use the domain-name
> option to specify the domain name). See RFC 1035 for
> character set restric‐
> tions. This option is only honored by dhclient-script(8) if
> the hostname for
> the client machine is not set.
>
> This would seem to indicate there being an expectation that hostname
> for the client machine would normally be set at th time that
> dhclient-script runs. Furthermore, if it were the send host-name
> "foobar" would not override it. Is it possible that dhclient is being
> run by init BEFORE the the init script that sets up the $HOSTNAME and
> /etc/hostname? That would certainly explain this behavior. Anyone
> know?
>
>
On FC5, $HOSTNAME appears to be set in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
Of course, rc.d and rc.sysinit don't appear to exist on ubuntu.
I think you mean to reference /etc/hosts, not /etc/hostname
On FC5 (and RH derivatives) HOSTNAME is set in the /etc/sysconfig/network
file. I know that debian derivatives don't do it that way.
I can't find anywhere on ubuntu that HOSTNAME is set, except in
/etc/pcmcia/network and /etc/pcmcia/network.conf, which shouldn't come into
play (I wouldn't think) with a PCI NIC card.
I'll go now, seeing as I'm pretty much useless regarding this problem.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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