Local Loop » dhcpcd http://localloop.co.za Internet and Networking in South Africa Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:27:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Requesting a DHCP hostname with Debian http://localloop.co.za/2009/02/requesting-a-dhcp-hostname-with-debian/ http://localloop.co.za/2009/02/requesting-a-dhcp-hostname-with-debian/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:21:28 +0000 Simeon Miteff http://localloop.co.za/?p=129 The DHCP server at my workplace allows clients to request a host name, and it then uses dynamic DNS updates to update the local DNS zone.

To make this work on Debian, I added the hostname option to the LAN iface stanza in my /etc/network/interfaces file:

iface eth0 inet dhcp
hostname capybara

Strangely, this option is not supported with dhcp3-client (the ISC client, Debian’s default), so I had to install one of the alternatives listed in the interfaces(5) man page (pump, dhcpcd or udhcpc). I knew dhcpcd from my Gentoo days, so I tried it, and it worked.

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