knm does not send hostname

[Will Stephenson]

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 01:12:27 Daniel Lehle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> knetworkmanager does not send my laptop's hostname to the DNS server, so
> I can't ping the host by its name :( I searched the web for that
> problem, but I just found out a solution which didn't work for me (send
> hostname in dhclient.conf).
>
> I inspected the DHCP packets which were sent by the laptop and there the
> correct hostname is listed! I'm running Gentoo with  tuxonice-2.6.23
> kernel. When I connect without knetworkmanager all is fine!
>
> Can someone help me with this issue?

It's a NetworkManager or dhcdbd bug - knetworkmanager is just a frontend and 
does not have any control over what they send to the DNS server.  See 
http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ for details.

Will


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