On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Suraj Kurapati <sunaku@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > For the longest time, the default ArchLinux networking setup had one > deficiency: it would not send the machine hostname to the DHCP server > / router when acquiring a DHCP lease. As a result, I was never able > to ping/ssh my ArchLinux system by its hostname from other machines in > my home network --- instead, I was always forced to type out my > ArchLinux system's IP address in full. > > I looked high and low across the 'net before I finally found the > answer in the dhcpcd.conf man page: the solution is to add the > following line to your /etc/dhcpcd.conf file: > > hostname > > One thing that confused me is this line in the default ArchLinux > /etc/dhcpd.conf file: > > # dhcpcd-run-hooks uses these options. > option domain_name_servers, domain_name, domain_search, host_name > > The "option host_name" part *seems* like it would send your machine's > hostname to the DHCP server, but it really doesn't. Maybe that's a > bug? > > I request the developers in charge of the default ArchLinux networking > setup to make the above change, so that ArchLinux systems send their > hostnames to the DHCP server (and therefore can be > pinged/ssh'ed/accessed by their hostname) out of the box! > > Thanks for your consideration. Please file this in the bug tracker or it will never happen
