> Is there a way for the dhcp client to send the current host name of the > machine when requesting a lease ? > > Currently I have to include a line like > DHCP_HOSTNAME=appserver2 > in my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, but I would like to > tell the dhcp client to just 'also send the hostname' and then the > client to get the current hostname itself, instead of having the name > hard-coded in the ifcfg-eth0 file. For some reason I think you need to have "HOSTNAME=" in your /etc/sysconfig/network file .. meaning make the variable blank. There is also a dhclient option you can create in /etc/dhcp/dhclient-<int>.conf something like send fqdn.fqdn <hostname> but usually you don't need that if your use DHCP_HOSTNAME correctly ... Barry