There's at least three bugs filed against Ubuntu on this issue. I'm
sure they'll fix it eventually. They keep referring the problem
upstream back to Debian. If I remember correctly, Ubuntu tries to bring
up ethernet before it has a hostname.
Steve
Richard Bailey wrote:
Thanks, that worked, but is there a way that could pull the configured
hostname automatically instead of hardcoding it in the file?
I tried:
send host-name "`hostname`";
but that didn't work.
- Thanks,
Richard
On 7/31/06, *Simon Kelley* <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Richard Bailey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have dnsmasq running and it's running great. When I had my client
> machine as Windows XP the dhcp-host option worked and gave the ip for
> the host I'd defined in the /etc/hosts file.
>
> Now my client is a Ubuntu 6.06 machine and it has the same
hostname, but
> it doesn't get the ip I've assigned. What's different about how Linux
> does a DHCP request that causes this and how can I fix it so that
it works?
>
> Note the hostname command in Ubuntu gives the proper hostname but the
> hostname -f command returns localhost. I tried to adjust this but
some X
> and other networking stuff stopped working.
>
I don't think that the default DHCP client on Ubuntu send the host name
unless you configure it.
Try editing /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf and adding
send host-name "<hostname>"
HTH
Simon.
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