From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 21:20:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD0137B401 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:20:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out002.verizon.net (out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B360443F3F for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:19:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@pcmedx.com) Received: from duron.pcmedx.com ([4.46.1.67]) by out002.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030725041959.HDHV13328.out002.verizon.net@duron.pcmedx.com> for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:19:59 -0500 Received: from mike (mike.pcmedx.com [192.168.240.244]) by duron.pcmedx.com (Postfix) with SMTP id D0F41A9A1 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <001b01c35264$05b2d880$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> From: "Mike Maltese" To: References: <1059098593.630.13.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> <000601c3525d$8bb64400$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <1059104868.630.22.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> <001201c35261$46252290$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <1059105815.630.29.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:20:04 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [4.46.1.67] at Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:19:59 -0500 Subject: Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 04:20:01 -0000 The dhcp package hasen't changed for a while so I'll assume you're running the latest. The only other thing I can think of is adding "request host-name;" to dhclient.conf, although IIRC, that's one of the values requested by default. You may want to check out the documentation at http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn" To: Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 9:03 PM Subject: Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 04:00, Mike Maltese wrote: > > OK, I see now. So you want your ISP's DHCP server to assign you a hostname? > > Or are you running your own local server? > > Yes, my ISP's DHCP server should assign me a hostname. I assumed that's > how it was done by dhclient on RedHat7.3/8/9 all of which just did this > automatically whenever I selected DHCP configuration of the interface. > I've been comparing FreeBSD 5.1's default dhclient-script to RedHat's > trying to discern if that's where the difference is, or if there's just > a subtle bug in the version of dhclient included with FreeBSD 5.1 > > I want to use dynamic hostname assignment so that my hostname will have > valid reverse DNS. > > -- > Shawn > http://drevil.warpcore.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"