Thoughts on dhcp-client automatically determining the hostname?

Glenn Satchell Glenn.Satchell at uniq.com.au
Wed Jan 23 11:53:59 UTC 2008


>Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:54:34 -0800
>From: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins at isc.org>
>To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>Subject: Re: Thoughts on dhcp-client automatically determining the hostname?
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>On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 08:16:32AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
>> send host-name configured;
>
>it's weird how this looks to someone who knows what the configuration
>internals look like.  none of the code that evaluates that statement
>knows that it is processing a hostname by the time it reaches the
>'configured' part.  it's just some DHCP option.
>
>	send host-name = gethostname();
>
>making this an executable statement that is evaluated when...
>

Would this work?

    send host-name = execute("uname", "-n");

regards,
-glenn


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