Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:17:18 -0600 From: "John Hoover" <johnhoover@home.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: DHCP config question Message-ID: <002501c19eba$0907db20$c801a8c0@internal.unknown> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020116112707.017908f8@mail.sage-american.com>
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Well, that did it, but I would not have guessed it.
It still doesn’t remove my wonder about why dhclient
after requesting and requiring the hostname from the server
isn’t setting it for me with the hostname definition removed.
John.
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Syntax perhaps? Looks like you have extra spaces in rc.conf on hostname
line:
hostname = "pcp608860pcs.rthfrd01.tn.comcast.net"
...if that is an exact copy...
At 11:20 AM 1.16.2002 -0600, John Hoover wrote:
>
>Finally converted from static IP to DHCP to make Comcast happy.
>
>Ok, Here's my question, setup seems ok, resolv.conf being updated
>correctly, route tables, ifconfig looks right, but it's not setting
>my hostname. Other words, the hostname command returns an empty string.
>Anybody got any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>John Hoover
>johnhoover@home.com
>
>Relevant setup stuff
>
>FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE #1: Sun Dec 23 18:01:29 CST 2001
>
>/etc/rc.conf
>hostname = "pcp608860pcs.rthfrd01.tn.comcast.net"
>ifconfig_ed0="DHCP"
>dhcp_program="/sbin/dhclient"
>dhcp_flags=""
>
>/etc/dhclient.conf
>script "/sbin/dhclient-script";
>interface "ed0" {
> send host-name "pcp608860pcs";
> request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
> domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name;
> require host-name;
>}
>
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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin
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