Bug 596242 - [enh] allow GUI configuration for DHCP hostname handling
Summary: [enh] allow GUI configuration for DHCP hostname handling
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 19
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-26 12:48 UTC by Roman Valov
Modified: 2017-10-06 18:20 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-02-18 13:26:36 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:
mleitner: needinfo-


Attachments (Terms of Use)
system-config-network screenshot (94.56 KB, image/png)
2010-05-26 15:47 UTC, Jiri Popelka
no flags Details
DHCP_HOSTNAME in nm-connection-editor (10.96 KB, patch)
2010-05-28 16:10 UTC, Jirka Klimes
no flags Details | Diff

Description Roman Valov 2010-05-26 12:48:10 UTC
Description of problem:
My router expects each dhcp request to it should include hostname-id of the client. Once hostname is received, router puts this hostname to dns records. With Fedora 13 i'm unable to force Fedora machine to send hostname in dhcp request.

How reproducible:
I've tried two ways, first is set DHCP_HOSTNAME variable in /etc/sysconfig/network and then ran dhclient. My router interface and one of other network clients shows that hostname is inaccessible (set).

After it I've tried to setup DHCP client id in IPv4 properties of ethernet connection (using Network Manager) and then forced to reconnect ethernet connection. I've checked that Network Manager created script var/run/nm-dhclient-eth0.conf and there is a line
send dhcp-client-identifier "myhostname";
however I still have no results on router and remote machines.

Comment 1 Jiri Popelka 2010-05-26 14:42:42 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> I've tried two ways, first is set DHCP_HOSTNAME variable in
> /etc/sysconfig/network and then ran dhclient.
Set the DHCP_HOSTNAME variable in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.

> After it I've tried to setup DHCP client id in IPv4 properties of ethernet
> connection (using Network Manager) and then forced to reconnect ethernet
> connection. I've checked that Network Manager created script
> var/run/nm-dhclient-eth0.conf and there is a line
> send dhcp-client-identifier "myhostname";
> however I still have no results on router and remote machines.    
Client-identifier is not hostname (find host-name and dhcp-client-identifier
in 'man dhcp-options').
I don't know whether we can set sending of hostname option with NetworkManager.
If you want to use some GUI tool, you can set sending of hostname option in system-config-network.

Comment 2 Roman Valov 2010-05-26 15:03:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Set the DHCP_HOSTNAME variable in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.
Thanks, it works.

> 
> Client-identifier is not hostname (find host-name and dhcp-client-identifier
> in 'man dhcp-options').
> I don't know whether we can set sending of hostname option with NetworkManager.
> If you want to use some GUI tool, you can set sending of hostname option in
> system-config-network.    
However I can't find appropriate option/field in system-config-network. There is only single hostname option (which doesn't affect DHCP_HOSTNAME) and there is no hostname option in device settings.

Could DHCP_HOSTNAME set automatically from HOSTNAME on install/device creation?

Comment 3 Jiri Popelka 2010-05-26 15:47:21 UTC
Created attachment 416888 [details]
system-config-network screenshot

(In reply to comment #2)
> However I can't find appropriate option/field in system-config-network. There
> is only single hostname option (which doesn't affect DHCP_HOSTNAME) and there
> is no hostname option in device settings.
I doubleclick the eth0 device (on Devices tab),
fill a value into "Hostname (optional):" textfield,
OK, File->Save,
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
and there it (DHCP_HOSTNAME) is.
> Could DHCP_HOSTNAME set automatically from HOSTNAME on install/device creation?    
Question probably for anaconda team.

Comment 4 Jiri Popelka 2010-05-27 13:33:17 UTC
Over to anaconda for that question in comment #2.

Comment 5 David Cantrell 2010-05-27 13:53:19 UTC
Reassigning to NetworkManager, since it handles the actual dhcp request from anaconda.  We do not do any special handling in anaconda to collect a special DHCP_HOSTNAME value and never have.  We have had support for the vendor-class-identifier, but that's it.

Comment 6 Jirka Klimes 2010-05-28 16:08:46 UTC
DHCP_HOSTNAME is correctly handled by NetworkManager ifcfg-rh plugin. And NetworkManager uses hostname for DHCP when provided with one.

What is missing are bits in nm-connection-editor to specify the hostname.
The patch in the attachment adds the functionality.

Comment 7 Jirka Klimes 2010-05-28 16:10:19 UTC
Created attachment 417678 [details]
DHCP_HOSTNAME in nm-connection-editor

Comment 8 Luca Botti 2010-05-30 07:34:55 UTC
+1 for the patch. Other known way is to edit (gconf-editor) the connection and add the dhcp-hostname (string) and dhcp-send-hostname (integer, 1) as keys.

Comment 9 Jan Vlug 2010-12-27 19:00:44 UTC
Are there any objections for sending the current hostname as the DHCP hostname by default? If not this might be the desired default behavior.

Comment 10 Jirka Klimes 2011-02-01 16:17:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> Are there any objections for sending the current hostname as the DHCP hostname
> by default? If not this might be the desired default behavior.

This is now upstream, see bug 488975.


Changing this bug to RFE for GUI configuration of dhcp-send-hostname parameter.

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Comment 12 Bill McGonigle 2011-06-02 19:40:40 UTC
I don't see it in the GUI on Fedora 15.  Please update version, Roman or Dan.

Comment 13 Jirka Klimes 2011-06-03 07:58:25 UTC
The GUI patch (comment #7) was not pushed because we didn't come into a conclusion whether we want the GUI.
Dan what do you think?

Comment 14 Daniel Manchester 2012-04-22 19:36:18 UTC
Hi,

Just wanted to provide a heads-up that the Red Hat 6.2 documentation is written as if this enhancement is already available. For the details, please see the first bullet under "Some Notes on Configuring Linux Networking" on this page:

http://oklampy.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/installing-the-operating-system-and-battling-new-host/

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Comment 17 Bill McGonigle 2012-08-07 15:40:03 UTC
Still not there in F17.  Please re-open.

Looks like this bug was waiting on a response from Dan Williams, per comment #13.

There are places where ISC dhcpd, which we ship with Fedora, can match on dhcp-hostname but not dhcp-client-identifier.   Presumably this is why Redhat supports it in the first place.

I think the only remaining question is if we want to restrict users who utilize this functionality to editing network-scripts or give them GUI access to it.  I can't think of a compelling reason why this particular variable should be restricted.

Comment 18 Jesse Keating 2012-08-07 18:27:28 UTC
There are plenty of things that are "restricted" in the GUI.  Adding more configuration options to the installer just means more code and complexity.  More code paths to test, more interactions to work through.  Is it worth it?  Maybe.  We don't expose every possible configuration option though, just because it's there.

Comment 19 Matthew Woehlke 2012-12-12 00:22:13 UTC
I suppose I'm being bitten by this. In F18, NM is no longer registering my machine  hostname in DHCP's DNS. This is a HUGE PROBLEM as this particular machine is a service provider and MUST have a registered DNS name.

This needs to be fixed. NM is seriously broken right now...

(I eventually had to resort to running dhclient by hand. I was not able to find any other way - without trying to toss out NM entirely, at least - to get my machine registered.)

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