Re: FQDNs for netbooted hosts via DHCP?

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 15/07/2018 11:18, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 15/07/2018 03:37, Robert Elz wrote:
> > As with most client/server systems, there are two separate things that 
> > need
> > to be made to work - the server has to send the data that you want it to
> > send (which might mean altering what the client requests, or server 
> > config,
> > or ...) and then the client needs to "do the right thing" with the 
> > data that is
> > returned.
> >
> > Lastly, for this, I wonder if perhaps that final "false" in need_hostname
> > (in dhcpcd-hooks/30-hostname) might instead be something more like
> >
> >     ${hfqdn} && [  "${hostname}" = "${hostname#*.}" ]
>
> If we're going to test that, then we need to check the converse for 
> ${hsort} && [ "$hostname" = "${hostname%%.*}" ]
>
> The actual change required is a bit more invasive than that line change 
> though, but it suffices for this discussion.

Patch here:
http://www.netbsd.org/~roy/dhcpcd-hostname-promotion.diff

Please test and let me know if it works for you!

Roy