Comment 20 for bug 10239

(In reply to comment #10)
> From what I can tell (man, that source is obscure), this is incredibly difficult
> to achieve.
>
> By default, we cannot create a new option without sending it to the DHCP server
> (and thus breaking RFC, which will probably confuse the server to hell).
> Injecting specialised hostname cases into the client parser looks to be
> extremely difficult. I think it would be easiest to write the hostname into
> this file when it gets created.
>
> Matt, comments?

I also noticed that, using dhclient 3.0.1-1ubuntu1 and didn't know why the
machine names do not appear in the
dhcp (debian sarge) box cache. I enabled it on the dhclient config file and it
works now. Why not just adding the
line which tells it to send the default hostname?