From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020804 Description of problem: Using dhclient for dhcp should put an entry like: DHCP_HOSTNAME=$HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network. The first beta worked without this entry, but the second beta requires it for my DHCP servers. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use dhclient to get DHCP assigned IP address 2. The hostname is not propagated unless I put a DHCP_HOSTNAME entry in /etc/sysconfig/network
The new behaviour would be correct. The default should be to not send a hostname to the DHCP server and to accept whatever hostname it provides - if you want to send a hostname to the server (which is needed with some broadband providers) then you need to set DHCP_HOSTNAME explicitly.