DHCP hostnames

On my home LAN Windows and Ubuntu boxes push their hostnames into local DNS which makes them easily resolvable - my router lists the names associated with MACs in its web interface, this is one of those small things that is really convenient. For some reason my fedora boxes have not been doing this lately and I finally got annoyed enough to look it up, turns out the fix is very simple.

First off figure out which interface you are using, if you are using more then 1 then I will assume you know which one you want the hostname pushed from, easily enough you can run 'ipconfig' or 'ip addr show' and note the interface name. In most cases this will be eth0 for copper and something like wlan0 for a wireless connection. Once you have the interface name substitute it into the following command:

echo "DHCP_HOSTNAME=$HOSTNAME" >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-

Then restart networking:

sudo service network restart

In the above example I am using '$HOSTNAME' which is the system hostname variable but you could set this to a static name if you desired.