misc/76401: sysinstall to set "host name" for dhclient

[jørgen nørgaard]

>Number:         76401
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       sysinstall to set "host name" for dhclient
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 18 11:01:00 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     jørgen nørgaard
>Release:        5.3
>Organization:
SmartTV
>Environment:
FreeBSD dvb2.smarttv.dk 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov  5 04:19:18 UTC 2004     root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
If "host name" is send in the dhcp request, the bootp server may dynamically update dns servers. This is the locally chosen hostname.

"host name" is option 12 in the bootp protocol.


Linux, Windows does work this way.




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