Wow. A 6+ year old bug in basic network connectivity. My home router runs DD-WRT with DNSMasq enabled which "...is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS."
But DNSMasq was unable to resolve a hostname for my Ubuntu 10.10 machine, thus other machines failed to locate it. This broke BackupPC for me as it could never resolve the hostname and gave errors like this: "Error: Can't find IP address for [myHostname] [myHostname] is a DHCP host, and I don't know its IP address. I checked the netbios name of [myIP_Address], and found that that machine is not [myHostname]. Until I see [myHostname] at a particular DHCP address, you can only start this request from the client machine itself." I checked /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf and it already contained: send host-name "<hostname>"; However, as mentioned in comment #47, adding the following after that line made it work for me: send fqdn.server-update on Now my router knows my hostname and I can ping it (by hostname) from other machines. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to dhcp3 in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10239 Title: dhcp3-client: Does not send hostname to server by default -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
