Mini Guide: DHCP Controlled Hostname on Raspbian

DHCP Controlled Hostname on Raspbian

Note: This note was originally in the Network Booting a Raspberry Pi 3 from an Ubuntu Server post.

In theory the configuration should be as simple as stated below:

{

  ...

  host pi3-1 {
    hardware ethernet b8:27:eb:41:8e:fa;
    fixed-address 192.168.1.59;
    option host-name "pi3-1";
  }

  host pi3-2 {
    hardware ethernet b8:27:eb:1b:3c:41;
    fixed-address 192.168.1.58;
    option host-name "pi3-2";
  }
}

However, it seems that this gets ignored, this article provides one solution that appears to work and does not modify the /etc/hostname file in the NFS root. As root:

echo localhost >/etc/hostname

Then:

echo unset old_host_name > /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/unset_old_hostname

Which seems to work: