Comment 11 for bug 10239

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 23:33:28 -0400
From: Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#151820: dhcp3-client: Does not send hostname to server by default

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 12:29:01PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> (This also applies to dhcp-client)
>
> In order to get server-side dynamic DNS updates to work, you need to
> add "send host-name "hostname";" to the configuration file for dhclient.
> Most other clients seem to default to sending the hostname (including pump
> and the MS client). There's also no documentation which mentions that this
> might be necessary, as far as I could find - only comments about the
> somewhat rarer case of client-side dynamic DNS. And if it needs to go in
> the configuration file that's one more thing to remember when the hostname
> changes...

I have started using dynamic DNS a lot lately, and I have wondered about
this as well. I noticed the same thing with pump and the MS Windows client,
and I agree about the badness of duplicating configuration information like
the hostname in the DHCP client config.

I just haven't gotten around to asking upstream about this. Could it be
that sending this information by default breaks some DHCP servers? I
haven't seen any problems, but I mostly use ISC's.

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 - mdz