From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 11:37:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from auemail2.firewall.lucent.com (auemail2.lucent.com [192.11.223.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE2E837B400 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ih2mail.ih.lucent.com (h135-1-241-39.lucent.com [135.1.241.39]) by auemail2.firewall.lucent.com (Switch-2.2.2/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id g5KIbQX15953 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:37:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from il0015shawnlke2 by ih2mail.ih.lucent.com (8.8.8+Sun/EMS-1.5 sol2) id NAA08945; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:37:25 -0500 (CDT) From: "Shawn Kennedy" To: Subject: DHCP/DNS question Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:37:29 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm confused (nothing new :-) as to what changed in regards to DHCP. Ever since the new DHCP stuff was folded in back in April, I've had a problem with DHCP and DNS here at work. It seems my hostname is not getting set in the DNS server, but the IP address is. Confused? Me too! Situation: ---------- I just wiped my box and installed a clean version from the 4.6 iso disks. I set up DHCP via sysinstall so my /etc/dhclient.conf file is empty. I get an IP address served to me from the DHCP server. When perform an "nslookup", the name of my box is not found and the IP address I get has someone else's box. If I ping the IP address from another box, it is answered by my box. This is a mostly-windows system around here, but the Linux guys say it works for them. It used to work for me as well. I spoke to the DNS guy and he says it sounds like I'm not sending the host-name in the DHCP request. Again, a very generic install on my box. Any ideas where to start? Shawn Kennedy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message