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Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Instructing dhclient to set hostname of client
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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