No. But I know that Windows has quirky proprietary things it uses to keep track of nodes on a network. All sorts of WINS and NetBIOS stuff. If one of these was the guy responsible for you getting your name automagically, then non-Windows workstations wouldn't get it.

However ISTR that when a DHCP lease is requested, you can ask for a hostname to be assigned as well. Like "my network name is COMPUTER and I would like an IP address." Then in addition to giving you an address, the DHCP server would update your DNS entry.

My guess is that the Empeg's DHCP client isn't doing this? Or maybe requires you to put something special in /etc/hosts to make it happen?