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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:35:39 +0100
From:      Joe Holden <joe@joeholden.co.uk>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Instructing dhclient to set hostname of client
Message-ID:  <453D35AB.3000908@joeholden.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <453C5979.4050408@yandex.ru>
References:  <453C0E42.4010604@joeholden.co.uk> <453C5386.5080102@FreeBSD.org> <453C5979.4050408@yandex.ru>

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Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>> If you're talking about a laptop where you're not sure what the DHCP
>> server is going to send you, then I have this in /etc/rc.local:
> 
> Hi, Doug.
> 
> What you think about adding a new feature to dhclient - Alternate IP
> Configuration. This configuration can be specified in dhclient.conf
> and take effect when a DHCP server not respond. MS Windows have a
> similar feature.
> 
Really I was hoping dhclient would have this sort of functionality where
it would resolve the ip given and set that as hostname, as as far as im
aware, isc-dhcpd will not send hostnames?

Ta,
Joe




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