Re: need help

[Gene Czarcinski <gene czarc net>]

On Monday 02 November 2009 16:18:57 Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 17:08 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > I am not adverse to doing some coding to get functionality I want. The
> > BZ  report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510253 asks for an
> > enhancement to NetworkManager to support specifying a DHCP hostname using
> > the NetworkManager system-settings editor.  Unfortunately for me, the
> > editor is written using glade.
> 
> Updated the bug; but before we start tossing in widgets, is it
> sufficient to push the system's current persistent hostname out to the
> DHCP server?  Or are there really cases where the name pushed up to the
> server is not the system's persistent hostname?
> 
Unfortunately, using the system's persistent hostname (from 
/etc/sysconfig/hetwork) does not appear sufficient ... see the BZ report.

Gene