[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#648676: Bug#648676: isc-dhcp-client - Changes hostname

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Sun Nov 20 09:47:24 UTC 2011


On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 08:50:53PM -0800, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:37:39AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > dhclient-script changes the hostname without being asked to do so. This
> > breaks all kinds of stuff that relates to the hostname, like sudo. And
> > it is also wrong, because the network name is not the hostname.
> Well actually it is asked to by requesting the host-name option in
> dhclient.conf.

Maybe I'm searching the wrong documentation, but where is documented
that not requesting an attribute means that it is not exported into the
script?

Bastian

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