Requesting a DHCP hostname with Debian

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 [...]

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