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Setting the right hostname

If the hostname wasn't or cannot transmitted right using DHCP we can set it ourselves.

Therefor we edit the following three config files:

In /etc/hostname we define our desired name.

If not already there we add the following line to /etc/hosts:

the servers IP address> hostname hostname.domain

At last we remove host-name from the long line in /etc/dhcp/dhcclient.conf.