Problem registering hostname in my LAN's DNS server from Ubuntu

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I have a LAN in my home, DHCP is served from my router and DNS from a server running Fedora Core.
After installing Ubuntu I noticed that my ubuntu machine wasn't accessible via hostname on my network.

I used the helpful dig command and looked at my server's dns file records and definitely my ubuntu machine wasn't registering with my DNS server.

I looked through all the docs on dhclient.conf and tried many different combinations of the send and prepend/supersede options in it to no avail.

I was looking everywhere for the windows equivalent of ipconfig/registerdns....
Then I found this helpful link: Dynamic DNS Updates with TSIG for Security
It explained that there was indeed command that I could use to register in DNS,

Now when my computer calls the command "dhclient" which calls the programs in its exit hooks directory, one of which is my little script, which calls nsupdate, which updates my computer's records in my LAN's DNS server.

Yeah!
No if I can just get my Logitech MX310 mouse's back and forward buttons to work....

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