From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 21 19: 0:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (mailout1-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A991553E for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:00:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichman@twcny.rr.com) Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com ([24.92.226.139]) by mailout1.nyroc.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:01:09 -0400 Received: from twcny.rr.com ([24.95.188.181]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 0-53939U80000L80000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:01:07 -0400 Message-ID: <37967D48.54AB5A72@twcny.rr.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:09:12 -0400 From: "Mark S. Reichman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Requesting a hostname from a dhcp server Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was reading the dhclient.conf man page about requesting a hostname from dhcp servers. My question is, can I request any hostname I want? ..or.. Should I request a hostname with the dhcp server supplied domain appended to my chosen hostname? Or, am I stuck with the funky hyroglyphic looking hostname provided by the dhcp server? Here is an excerpt from the dhclient.conf man page. I am trying this exact same thing but cant get it to work. I do a dnslookup on the hostname I send and nothing is found. Also, Is there a place to view the reject statements from the server? --------- snip more dhclient.conf man page stuff ------ interface "ep0" { send host-name "andare.fugue.com"; --------- snip more dhclient.conf man page stuff ------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message