Comment 2 for bug 180266

Hardy.

juser@dhcp120:~$ cat /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers, domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name, ntp-servers;

>router can never tell the hostname of my Ubuntu machines. Is this related?
well, my Gutsy box has it. check for the line:
send host-name "<hostname>";