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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2000 12:30:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: conf/18583: [PATCH] DHCP should be able to override hostname. 
Message-ID:  <200005161930.MAA39345@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR conf/18583; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/18583: [PATCH] DHCP should be able to override hostname. 
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 21:28:19 +0200

 On Tue, 16 May 2000 09:14:21 MST, Brooks Davis wrote:
 
 > If that has been a real option, I would have done it.  However, dhclient
 > communicates with it's script through the environment and rc.conf et al
 > work by spamming the environment.  There is at least one namespace
 > collision between them.
 
 Hmm, not something I thought of, nor something I have a simple solution
 for. :-)
 
 I _do_ think that dhclient-script needs to be taught a way to prevent
 the spamming of /etc/resolv.conf, but I'm pretty sure that's not going
 to solve _this_ problem. :-)
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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