#866218 [isc-dhcp-client] dhclient fails to set hostname

Package:
isc-dhcp-client
Source:
isc-dhcp
Description:
DHCP client for automatically obtaining an IP address
Submitter:
Andreas Heinlein
Date:
2026-08-05 17:34:00 UTC
Severity:
minor
Tags:
#866218#5
Date:
2017-06-28 13:06:03 UTC
From:
To:
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This is a follow-up to bug #792854, which is archived and obviously
cannot be re-opened. The problem still occurs in stretch, so obviously
the fix in #604883 did not work for all cases.

The problem is that dhclient is supposed to set the hostname if it is
told to request the hostname in dhclient.conf, but doesn't. The output
of 'hostname' is 'localhost.localdomain' instead.

Debian Release: 9.0
900 stable ftp.de.debian.org
100 stretch-backports ftp.de.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
===============================-+-===========
libc6 (>= 2.15) | 2.24-11+deb9u1
libdns-export162 | 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
libisc-export160 | 1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3
debianutils (>= 2.8.2) | 4.8.1.1
iproute2 | 4.9.0-1


Recommends (Version) | Installed
==============================-+-===========
isc-dhcp-common | 4.3.5-3


Suggests (Version) | Installed
===================================-+-===========
resolvconf |
avahi-autoipd |
isc-dhcp-client-ddns |

#866218#26
Date:
2026-08-05 17:31:09 UTC
From:
To:
Dear submitter,

as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1143544

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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