[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#866218: [isc-dhcp-client] dhclient fails to set hostname

[Andreas Heinlein]

Package: isc-dhcp-client
Version: 4.3.5-3
Severity: normal

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This is a follow-up to bug #792854, which is archived and obviously 
cannot be re-opened. The problem still occurs in stretch, so obviously 
the fix in #604883 did not work for all cases.

The problem is that dhclient is supposed to set the hostname if it is 
told to request the hostname in dhclient.conf, but doesn't. The output 
of 'hostname' is 'localhost.localdomain' instead.

--- System information. ---
Architecture:
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64

Debian Release: 9.0
900 stable ftp.de.debian.org
100 stretch-backports ftp.de.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
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libc6 (>= 2.15) | 2.24-11+deb9u1
libdns-export162 | 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
libisc-export160 | 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
debianutils (>= 2.8.2) | 4.8.1.1
iproute2 | 4.9.0-1


Recommends (Version) | Installed
==============================-+-===========
isc-dhcp-common | 4.3.5-3


Suggests (Version) | Installed
===================================-+-===========
resolvconf |
avahi-autoipd |
isc-dhcp-client-ddns |