On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:47:14AM +0000, Simon Kelley wrote: > >Is there any way to force clients to send their hostnames to dnsmask? > > Not possible. There's nothing in the DHCP protocol that would allow > this. Note that the Debian package of dhcpcd does send the hostname by > default, so if you can arrange to use dhcpcd instead of dhclient that > would solve the problem.
Making dhclient what I need is easy, too. But the default installation don't use dhcpcd and dont configure dhclient in this way. Thus manual intervention is needed on every client either way. :-( BTW: sarge starts dhclient with the -e option. Therefore the client will give up to get a lease and _exit_ when the server can not be reached at boot time. Thus it will never retry to get a lease when the server is available again. I bet this is _not_ the way the client should behave? Thanks for your quick response.