If you are using the DHCP server to automatically update your DNS, and you
do not apply this patch, your DNS entries will be incorrect.

Before the patch I was getting
tornado.moyville.ie.moyville.ie

After the patch I get the correct entry
tornado.moyville.ie

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--- /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup.orig    Wed Sep 19 18:51:45 2001
+++ /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup Wed Sep 19 18:52:51 2001
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@
        fi
 fi
 
+if [ "$DHCP_HOSTNAME" ] && [ "$DOMAINNAME" ]
+then
+       DHCP_HOSTNAME=`echo $DHCP_HOSTNAME | sed -e "s/\.$DOMAINNAME//g"`
+fi
+
 need_hostname
 
 CONFIG=${1}

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