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.

Right, that's all I'm talking about.

My guess is that the Empeg's DHCP client isn't doing this?

Right, that's what I'm saying.

I was wondering if that was a kernel thing, and if so, if Mark could look at it. If it's not a kernel thing, then perhaps I should be hounding the empeg guys.