Date: 16 Feb 2004 14:57:08 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Evan Dower" <evantd@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname and dhcp Message-ID: <44fzdaer1n.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <444qtw2dz6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <BAY8-F49ztmjUUNsr6Y00092ae6@hotmail.com> <444qtw2dz6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> writes: > "Evan Dower" <evantd@hotmail.com> writes: > > > Hmm... That is what I expected it to do, but when I tried it, I ended > > up with an empty hostname. Of course, I don't remember now if I > > commented out that line or just set it to empty. Actually, looking at > > /etc/defaults/rc.conf I see that if I comment it out in /etc/rc.conf > > it gets set to the empty string in the default, so it shouldn't > > matter. Anyway, like I said, I tried that and just ended up with an > > empty hostname. Perhaps that indicates something is wrong with my > > configuration... > > Well, I didn't *try* it, I just read through dhclient-script. > I'll try to take a closer look. I checked it out on my home network, and found that my DHCP server wasn't sending the hostname back at all. I am running my own DHCP server (using the ISC port), so I configured it to do that (with the "get-lease-hostnames" option). If you don't run your own server, you can't do anything about that, so if you want your hostname set to the correct FQDN, you'd need to do a reverse lookup on the IP address you found.
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