Dynamic client host-name (Option 12)

[Dave M]

I have clients (eMTA) who request a hostname parameter. It is easy to
create static entries and provide clients with an hostname back but I can't
manage to do it dynamically.

I have the rest of my configuration working fine except that one line:

        subnet 172.16.52.0 netmask 255.255.254.0
        {
                allow leasequery;
                option routers 172.16.53.254;
                option broadcast-address 172.16.53.255;
                option domain-name-servers 172.16.64.15 ;
                ddns-hostname = concat("mta-", hw_mac_short);
                ddns-domainname "emta.lab.com.";
                host-name = concat("mta-", hw_mac_short);   -----> not
working
                option domain-name "emta.lab.com";
                filename = concat("config/mta-", hw_mac_short, ".cfg");
                pool
                {
                        #pool: MTA 172.16.52.1 172.16.53.253
                        range 172.16.52.1 172.16.53.253;

                        allow members of "MTA";
                }
        }

If I hardcode the host-name, then the DDNS works fine and gets created
based on the mac (variable hw_mac_short) but I can't figure out how to
return option 12 dynamically to clients requesting it.

I'm testing this on ISC DHCP 4.4.1

Is there a trick for that?

Dave M.
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