How to send hostname through DHCP more often.

From: Bogdan Calmac (bcalmac_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/31/05

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    I use debian stable (sarge) and the dhcp3-client package. I register
    my hostname by adding

    send hostname "foo";

    in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. Everything works fine but for some reason
    the DHCP/DNS server (which I don't control) loses the hostname
    registration and the next day I need to connect to my machine using
    the IP. Once I logon, I do

    ifup --force eth0

    and the hostname is registered again. This is obviously not nice, so
    is it possible to:

    1. configure dhclient to send the hostname at a certain interval?
    2. configure dhclient to send just the hostname?
    3. control the interval at which dhclient renews the lease and set it
    to a few hours so that the hostname is sent more frequently?

    Do you have any other suggestion for approaching this? Again, I cannot
    touch the server.

    In the worst case I would probably set a cron job to do "ifup --force eth0" :-(

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