FS#12643 - No name-resolution with dhcpcd 4.0.7-1

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Thomas Schuetz (Murray_B) - Friday, 02 January 2009, 18:43 GMT
Last edited by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Sunday, 22 February 2009, 19:39 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture i686
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
I am using a router (fritzbox 7050) here to get into the internet and connect my computers.
My computers are using dhcp to obtain an IP-address from it and the router does the name-
resolution. Quite a normal setup I think.

With dhcpcd 4.0.4-1 and earlier I could make a "nslookup computername" or see the computername
in the interface-section of the router-webinterface. Since 4.0.7-1 I can't do this anymore,
because the hostname seems not to be send to the router. The internal name-resolution only
works with /etc/hosts anymore

I can see no errors whith "dhcpcd -d eth0", the option "-h computername" or "-C resolv.conf"
or "-C mtu" don't change anything.

Steps to reproduce:
- get a router and use it with dhcp
- boot your computer
- try to ping the computername over the network, watch your router-webinterface, do a nslookup...
This task depends upon

Closed by  Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Sunday, 22 February 2009, 19:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  fixed in dhcpcd 4.0.10 release
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Wednesday, 07 January 2009, 14:29 GMT
Not sure if it is related, but can you try what is described at the end of the comments of this bug:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11770
Comment by Thomas Schuetz (Murray_B) - Wednesday, 07 January 2009, 15:17 GMT
I tried "clientid" and "hostname computername" in /etc/dhcpcd.conf, nothing changed.
Comment by Lone_Wolf (Lone_Wolf) - Sunday, 08 February 2009, 15:33 GMT
I have the same problem with several different routers, a fritzbox and 2 speedtouch routers.
On all 3 networks windows XP systems are accessible by hostname and shown in the router interfaces.
All archlinux systems on these networks have the hostname set in rc.conf.
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Sunday, 08 February 2009, 15:48 GMT
please test if dhcpcd 4.0.10-1 in testing still has this problem for you. If it has you may want to contact the upstream dev, he's fairly active with helping with these kind of problems.
Comment by Thomas Schuetz (Murray_B) - Monday, 09 February 2009, 15:28 GMT
Okay, the problem is gone with 4.0.10 here.
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Monday, 09 February 2009, 19:01 GMT
Lone_Wolf, is it fixed for you too ?
Comment by Lone_Wolf (Lone_Wolf) - Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 20:06 GMT
On the speedtouch routers (friends networks) it solved the issue.

With my fritzbox 7170 it still doesn't work.
It's web-interface only allows to set the address range for dhcp, and there are no configure options for DNS (can't even disable it ! ).

In the near future i will add a cisco router to my network, and then the fritzbox will only be used as modem.
You don't have to keep this bug open for me.

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