Bug 71007 – Using dhclient should put an entry for DHCP_HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network

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Bug 71007 - Using dhclient should put an entry for DHCP_HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network

Summary:	Using dhclient should put an entry for DHCP_HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Public Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	dhcpcd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	limbo
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Elliot Lee
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Reported:	2002-08-07 15:17 EDT by Forrest
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-08-07 15:17:22 EDT
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Description Forrest 2002-08-07 15:17:17 EDT

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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.


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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

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2002-08-08 12:52:44 EDT

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.

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