Problem with DHCP, /etc/hosts and GNOME

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Thu Apr 8 18:36:40 UTC 2004



On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Julien Olivier wrote:

> > You can also set DHCP_HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
> > (configurable by redhat-config-network)
> > 
> 
> Followinf your advice, I have added "DHCP_HOSTNAME=fedora" to my
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 file.
> 
> I have then restarted my network and still have the
> "rfc1918.space.should.not.be.used.on.publicips" hostname.

I hope this is a bug (in the dhcp client scripts) that can be
fixed. Otherwise I'm at a loss at explaining what the flag
DHCP_HOSTNAME is for (it if doesn't work)

Satish





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