On 10/21/2015 12:19 PM, Patrik Flykt wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-10-08 at 01:31 -0600, Daniel Wagner wrote:
>> I have uploaded two traces. Both created on my Linux machine.
>>
>> - This one is with an unmodified ConnMan:
>>
>>    http://www.monom.org/connman/dhcp-not-working.pcapng
>>
>> - And this one is with a modified ConnMan which doesn't sent its
>>    hostname:
>>
>>    http://www.monom.org/connman/dhcp-working.pcapng
> 
> Looks like there are two ways to tame this: have a main.conf entry or
> retry without sending a hostname. In the latter case people expecting
> their host name to be added to DNS will be surprised if there is
> something else going wrong in the network at the same time and their
> hostname is therefore not sent to the server.
> 
> The first option will be clearer (will it?) to the user that no
> hostnames are sent and DNS therefore cannot be expected to work
> automatically. But of course this is now an option that hits all DHCP
> connection, not the presumably "faulty" one. OTOH with this main.conf
> one can prevent hostnames to be sent altogether.

My take is to gather some traces from Windows and see how they solve
this kind of problem. Though someone else has to do it. Is someone
living in Utah and accesses to a CenturyLink DSL WiFi modem?
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