dhcp evils

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 18:37, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
> > The cure would be to provide a useful dhclient.conf,
> > remove dhclient-eth0.leases, and reboot.
> > The result should be a new lease that does not include a hostname.
> > Is there a way to tell the server to forget the name "stmike"?
> > If for some reason dhclient asks for a hostname again,
> > I'd like that name to be gone.
>
> If you run system-config-network-gui, fill in the
> hostname in the 'DNS' tab and reboot, which name
> wins?

For a while, my machine thought its name was the.hostname.
After making that entry blank, stmike came back.

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