Re: How to send hostname through DHCP more often.

From: TreeBoy (debian-user_at_petethetree.co.uk)
Date: 08/31/05

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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:43:53 +0100

    On Wednesday 31 Aug 2005 17:00, Bogdan Calmac 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?
    >
    > 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"
    > :-(

    I think the problem is that it should be "send host-name" instead of "send
    hostname". 

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