On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Keven Ring wrote: > Satish Balay wrote: > > >I hope this is a bug (in the dhcp client scripts) that can be > >fixed. Otherwise I'm at a loss at explaining what the flag > >DHCP_HOSTNAME is for (it if doesn't work) > > > DHCP_HOSTNAME suggests to the DHCP server what your hostname is. I'm > not sure if the DHCP server is obliged to honor that request or not. > I'm guessing not. My guess is that this might be honored if the DHCP > server turns around and updates DNS dynamically. Otherwise, why should it? > Ah.. I interptered it as - an option to dhcp-clinet (not server) to ignore what dhcp server says - and use the provided value as the hostname. Perhpas there should be some other option for this functionality? (RFE) I don't like hostname changing (when you move laptop between networks) - this changes xauth which messes up everything else.. Satish
