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What does 'dhclient: suspect value in host_name option - discarded' mean?

Xavier2
Hi,

in the logs of my UTM 9.103 I see many errors(!) stating
'dhclient: suspect value in host_name option - discarded'

What's this or how can see what's really wrong or which host causes this?

Xavier


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    If your ISP is handing out a name with a blank character, that may be why. I thought that message was normally only displayed when dhclient read it's config file but it may also come up when dhclient receives it's lease information. There's not a lot of info from google on that error (just some stuff from Amazon AWS) so I had to dig into the source code of dhclient to make sense of it. [:)]

    Blank(whitespace) characters are not valid characters per the DNS naming specs so dhclient would throw an error. Your hostname is a valid DNS name though not resolvable anywhere except perhaps internally.
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    If your ISP is handing out a name with a blank character, that may be why. I thought that message was normally only displayed when dhclient read it's config file but it may also come up when dhclient receives it's lease information. There's not a lot of info from google on that error (just some stuff from Amazon AWS) so I had to dig into the source code of dhclient to make sense of it. [:)]

    Blank(whitespace) characters are not valid characters per the DNS naming specs so dhclient would throw an error. Your hostname is a valid DNS name though not resolvable anywhere except perhaps internally.
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