isc-dhcp-client sends string literal "<hostname>" instead of hostname

Bug #1308968 reported by Ben Howard
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Bug Description

isc-dhcp-client is sending a string liternal of "<hostname>" in the request to the DHCP server instead of the hostname of the machine .

utlemming@utl-0417-p1:~$ grep -v \# /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf | grep "."
option rfc3442-classless-static-routes code 121 = array of unsigned integer 8;
send host-name = "<hostname>";
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
 domain-name, domain-name-servers, domain-search, host-name,
 netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu,
 rfc3442-classless-static-routes, ntp-servers,
 dhcp6.domain-search, dhcp6.fqdn,
 dhcp6.name-servers, dhcp6.sntp-servers;

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: isc-dhcp-client 4.1.ESV-R4-0ubuntu5.9
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.2.0-60.91-virtual 3.2.55
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-60-virtual x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 17 10:53:37 2014
Ec2AMI: ami-c1dfc1a8
Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown)
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1c
Ec2InstanceType: t1.micro
Ec2Kernel: aki-919dcaf8
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: isc-dhcp
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Ben Howard (darkmuggle-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote :

That config doesn't match trusty's so I believe the bug is fixed there.

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