http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4227
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-21-07 19:54 ------- Please provide the contents of /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth?.leases It seems your provider's DHCP server is not in sync with the PTR records on their DNS server, since it seems that the hostname returned is the hostname the DHCP server has assigned. By default, if the DHCP server returns a hostname, it should be used (so IMHO, the current behaviour would seem to be correct, until we see the lease information I ask for above), just as the domain name, DNS servers etc should be used. Hmmm, most users want to be able to specify their own hostname, regardless of any other settings returned by the provider (which is possible via gui tools IIRC). -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: drakxtools-newt-9.2-0.18mdk Here is a feature that I sorely miss and would have to be added to drakconnect and, I presume, initscripts as well. My home computer gets a dhcp address from a cable modem. The IP address I get is a valid address, but the hostname that the dhcp server inside the cable modem gives me is not. An example would be: IP address: 24.241.233.100 hostname: dhcp-100 What I would like is an option that sets the hostname as the reverse lookup for the IP address that I have been allotted. In this case, the command host 24.241.233.100 gives me the address: c24.241.233.100.jvl.wi.charter.com and that's what I want as my hostname. Let me be clear about this: The solution may consist of switching dhcp clients or editing some init files, but I really want this to be done in an easy manner through the GUI in drakconnect.
