Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:16:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de> To: Joe Holden <joe@joeholden.co.uk> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instructing dhclient to set hostname of client Message-ID: <20061024091523.G45134@knop-beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> In-Reply-To: <453D35AB.3000908@joeholden.co.uk> References: <453C0E42.4010604@joeholden.co.uk> <453C5386.5080102@FreeBSD.org> <453C5979.4050408@yandex.ru> <453D35AB.3000908@joeholden.co.uk>
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Joe Holden wrote: JH>Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: JH>> Doug Barton wrote: JH>>> If you're talking about a laptop where you're not sure what the DHCP JH>>> server is going to send you, then I have this in /etc/rc.local: JH>> JH>> Hi, Doug. JH>> JH>> What you think about adding a new feature to dhclient - Alternate IP JH>> Configuration. This configuration can be specified in dhclient.conf JH>> and take effect when a DHCP server not respond. MS Windows have a JH>> similar feature. JH>> JH>Really I was hoping dhclient would have this sort of functionality where JH>it would resolve the ip given and set that as hostname, as as far as im JH>aware, isc-dhcpd will not send hostnames? Sure it does. On my machines I set hostname to "" in rc.conf and let dhclient set it. Works fine. harti
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