Found an interesting bit of RFC:
" In general, a client does not need to send redundant data, and
   therefore clients which send the Client FQDN option in their messages
   MUST NOT also send the Host Name option.  Clients which receive both
   the Host Name option and the Client FQDN option from a server SHOULD
   prefer Client FQDN option data."
URL: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dhc-fqdn-option-13

So it sounds like sending both the hostname and the fqdn is wrong. One
idea would be to only send fqdn.fqdn which according to the RFC should
work fine as a replacement for hostname and should also be IPv6
compatible.

Looking at the DHCPv6 FQDN RFC, partially qualified domain names are valid in 
fqdn.fqdn, so that could be a way around our problem.
URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4704.txt

I'll change dhclient.conf with the next upload to only contain fqdn.fqdn
but won't push that as an SRU for the time being as I want to make sure
we don't break things badly for some other users when dropping the
hostname field.

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Raring)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Stéphane Graber (stgraber)

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Quantal)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Stéphane Graber (stgraber)

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Raring)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

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  dhclient does not register hostname to dynamic DNS (AD)

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