[Gllug] dhcp & client-hostname

[Jonathan Dye]

Hi,

At home I have a box that acts as a dhcp server to my home network.  It also
runs dnsmasq as a dna server which reads the dhcpd.leases file and looks for
client-hostname (or an alternative which I forget) entries for local
machines.  This works fine with my windows based machiens as they send this
info down with their dhcp requests but my debian 3 box doesn't do the same
so I can't resolve it via dns.  

I believe it uses dhclient to get a lease so I had a look at the man page
and I thought that putting
send client-hostname "<hostname>"
in the /etc/dhclient.conf file would make it send the relevant data when
querying the server but it doesn't appear to.  Can anyone help me out with
this as I like the way that dnsmasq works and don't want to go back to
static IPs.

JD

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