Comment 30 for bug 10239

Hi!

I just implemented this long-standing feature request in Ubuntu:

 dhcp3 (3.0.4-12ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * Add debian/patches/dynamic-hostname.dpatch:
      - Add support for a new string type 'h' which behaves like 't' except
        that '<hostname>' is changed to the current hostname.
      - Change 'host-name' DHCP option type from 't' to 'h'.
      - Based on a patch from Nathan O'Sullivan, thank you!
   * debian/dhclient.conf: Enable send-hostname by default (value '<hostname>',
     which our shiny new patch from above will translate to the actual
     hostname). Closes: LP#10239 and two handful of duplicates.

You can find the debdiff at

  http://people.ubuntu.com/patches/dhcp3.client-send-hostname.patch

Thanks,

Martin

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