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and subject line Re: [pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#627825: isc-dhcp-client: Please
provide a possibility keep the hostname untouched
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regarding isc-dhcp-client: Please provide a possibility keep the hostname
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Package: isc-dhcp-client
Version: 4.1.1-P1-17
Severity: wishlist
Since the inclusion of the patches in http://bugs.debian.org/609408,
dhclient always resets the hostname:
> - fix setting of hostname in dhclient-script
I can't remember for how long this didn't work as it was expected to
(probably since the move of /bin/sh from bash to dash), but I find the
"fixed" behaviour very annoying, especially if a hostname is already set
via /etc/hostname or I explicitly configured in /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
to send a hostname.
I also don't understand why the hostname is currently always reset to
"anonhost-0263" on this machine as this isn't the hostname in the PTR
record of the IP I got via DHCP. It's also no existing other hostname in
the DNS domain I am currently in. I first suspected avahi-autoipd, but
deinstalling it didn't change this behaviour.
I currently use an exit-hook which resets the hostname to the one I
configured in /etc/hostname, but this is quite ugly as the hostname then
is changed twice on every lease renewal.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (400,
'oldstable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client depends on:
ii debianutils 4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii iproute 20110315-1 networking and traffic control too
ii isc-dhcp-common 4.1.1-P1-17 common files used by all the isc-d
ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
isc-dhcp-client recommends no packages.
Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client suggests:
ii avahi-autoipd 0.6.30-3 Avahi IPv4LL network address confi
pn resolvconf <none> (no description available)
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf changed:
option rfc3442-classless-static-routes code 121 = array of unsigned integer 8;
send host-name "nemo";
prepend domain-search "6.deuxchevaux.org";
prepend domain-search "ethz.ch";
prepend domain-search "deuxchevaux.org";
prepend domain-search "noone.org";
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
domain-name, domain-name-servers, domain-search, host-name,
netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu,
rfc3442-classless-static-routes, ntp-servers;
-- no debconf information
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Hi Andrew,
Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > I also don't understand why the hostname is currently always reset to
> > "anonhost-0263" on this machine as this isn't the hostname in the PTR
> > record of the IP I got via DHCP. It's also no existing other hostname in
> > the DNS domain I am currently in. I first suspected avahi-autoipd, but
> > deinstalling it didn't change this behaviour.
>
> Look at your lease file. Is this what your DHCP server is handing out?
Indeed, thanks for the pointer. Embarrassingly this is a DHCP server I
administrate. (But I haven't set it up initially and never noticed
those host strange names in the generated parts of the config. :-)
> > I currently use an exit-hook which resets the hostname to the one I
> > configured in /etc/hostname, but this is quite ugly as the hostname then
> > is changed twice on every lease renewal.
>
> If you don't request the host-name option in your dhclient.conf, you should
> get what you want.
Meh, you're right -- also my fault. I just looked at
/sbin/dhclient-script and found no way where setting the hostname
could be disabled. Didn't think of the obvious thing here either.
Thanks for your help and sorry for the noise. :-)
Regards, Axel
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