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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:17:28 +0200
From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
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Subject: Re: Host name question
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:09:49AM -0400, Bill Schmitt (SW) typed:
> I know I've seen the answer to this question somewhere here, but I can't 
> seem to find it. I'm running FBSD 4.9 on a machine which is connected to 
> a router (Netgear) that provides DHCP services. The FBSD box gets the IP 
> correctly (assigned based on the MAC address), but the router never sees 
> it by name. I have the name of the machine in the hosts file and 
> rc.conf, but the router never gets the name back. Can anyone help?

What makes you think the router *should* get the name back?