Well, it seems to me like you would place the option
hostname yourhostname
after the iface eth0 inet dhcp line
scott
Chad Perrin wrote:
> I'll be responding to several different emails in this one email.
> Specifically, I'm responding here to Scott, Kwan Lowe, Eben King, and
> Larry Brown, in that order (because that's the time/date stamp order
> in my inbox).
>
>
> ##### scott wrote:
>
>> What do you have in your /etc/network/interfaces file? Do you
>> request a hostname from the router?
>>
>> See "man interfaces" for some ideas.
>>
>
> /etc/network/interfaces:
>
> # loopback (127.0.0.1) interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # NIC
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> Having looked through the interfaces manpage, I found syntax that
> seems to be designed to set the machine's hostname and to specify the
> DHCP client that is used, but nothing that seems to pertain to
> requesting name service. Did I overlook something?
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