can the hostname changed via DHCP?

Question

According to several comments in the web most DHCP clients simply ignore the hostname provided by the DHCP server. Does Ubuntu use the provided hostname? If not, how can Ubuntu be persuaded to use the provided hostname?

Answer 1

It seems you can do that with /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf's option:

request host-name;

See the example at the end of dhclient.conf(5)