[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#604883: dhcp3-client (squeeze) not sending hostname

[Robert Epprecht]

Package: dhcp3-client
Version: 4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2
Severity: normal

I have the following line in my /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf
send host-name "<hostname>";
This results in sending the hostname as '<hostname>'.

If I change the config to something like
send host-name "xyz";
then no hostname is sent (or maybe an empty one).

Both configurations worked as expected in Lenny.
I do *not* see a hostname '(none)' as the original poster reported.
I tested in Wheezy and get the same problem with isc-dhcp-client 4.1.1-P1-16

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dhcp3-client depends on:
ii  isc-dhcp-client     4.1.1-P1-15+squeeze2 ISC DHCP client

dhcp3-client recommends no packages.

dhcp3-client suggests no packages.

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