Comment 7 for bug 991360

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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote :

In light of the following changelog entry, should this report (bug #991360) be reopened?

isc-dhcp (4.2.4-1ubuntu10.2) quantal-proposed; urgency=low
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  * Don't set fqdn.fqdn in dhclient.conf as that seems to confuse some DHCP
    servers. An alternative would have been to only set fqdn.fqdn and not
    host-name, but that appears to confuse another set of servers.
    For now go with just host-name which is the most common and if becomes a
    big problem for IPv6 (where fqdn.fqdn is apparently required), then we'll
    need to have a separate dhclient6.conf file and change all the calls to
    dhclient -6 to use that file instead. (LP: #1088682)
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 -- Stéphane Graber <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:07:49 -0500