Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:33:42 -0700 From: "Mike Maltese" <mike@pcmedx.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Shawn <drevil@warpcore.org> Subject: Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment Message-ID: <000601c3525d$8bb64400$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> References: <1059098593.630.13.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com>
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If I understand your question correctly, the following line in /etc/dhclient.conf should do what you want: send host-name "yourhostname"; ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn" <drevil@warpcore.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:03 PM Subject: Dynamic Hostname Assignment > When I recently installed and setup FreeBSD 5.1 on my box here at home, > I noticed that it didn't dynamically set the hostname for me. When I > used RedHat Linux 9 before it did. > > I was puzzled by this at first, since RedHat and FreeBSD both use > dhclient (AFAIK), and I spent a few hours looking around for settings > for dhclient and found some information about require-hostname, and a > few other things. But, no matter what I tried, it didn't seem to work. I > continued to look for various articles about dynamic hostname > configuration and I am fairly certain I covered the relevant portions of > the handbook. Everything I've read seemed to indicate it should "just > work", but it wasn't. > > Finally, after I couldn't find an answer anywhere, I devised my own > little hack. I modified /etc/rc.d/hostname like so: > > hostname_start() > { > ip=`ifconfig xl0 | grep 'inet ' | awk '{print $2}'` > # Set the host name if it is not already set > # > if [ -z "`hostname -s`" ]; then > if [ $ip ]; then > hostname=`host $ip | awk '{print $5}'` > hostname ${hostname} > echo "Setting hostname: `hostname`." > fi > fi > } > > I then symlinked /etc/rc.d/hostname to > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/001.hostname.sh so that after the network interface > and everything had been brought up it would set my hostname correctly. > I'm sure this is probably an ugly and unnecessary hack, but I could find > no other way to get my hostname to be set properly :] > > I'm quite willing to go debug or rip apart dhclient to figure out why it > isn't grabbing the hostname if someone points me in the right direction. > Any suggestions? > > -- > Shawn <drevil@warpcore.org> > http://drevil.warpcore.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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