Re: How to send hostname through DHCP more often.
From: Jörg Schütter (joerg_at_schuetter.org)
Date: 08/31/05
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:36:27 +0200 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Hello Bogdan,
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:00:26 -0400
Bogdan Calmac <bcalmac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
/etc/dhclient.conf
...
send dhcp-lease-time 3600;
...
>
Jörg
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