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Didn't think of that! Good point. For what it's worth I've encountered the
same issue on newer versions of Solaris as well. I'll see if I can find time
to test the change to /etc/default/dhcp on one of my lab boxes.

"Casper H.S. Dik" wrote:

> Michael Moeller <mmoel@t-online.de> writes:
>
> >Perhaps it's important to say the server is a Cisco business router.
> >Afaik it doesn't care about the clients names and I changed them at
> >times without difficulty. Since it worked before the fault is likely
> >to be client sided. None of the other machines names were altered by
> >DHCP.
>
> Is it the name returned by DNS?
>
> I believe you can remove what the DHCP client asks for by
> editing /etc/default/dhcp and drop the hostname (param 12)
>
> But Solaris 2.6 is, of course, a very old release (end of 1997?)
> and a lot of things have changed; I also do not have a Solaris 2.6
> system to check this on.
>
> Casper