Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:20:54 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Message-ID: <200001280020.QAA03272@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:06:31 PST." <46146.949017991@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> > IMHO, that is the wrong assumption. Most DHCP servers I've seen aren't > > setup to provide hostnames to the requrestor. > > Seems they're set up incorrectly then. You can't be a good "network > citizen" these days without a resolvable hostname that also matches > your primary IP address or, among other things, you won't be able to > send mail directly to anyone who practices traditional spam filtering > techniques. Actually, the problem here is that our dhclient doesn't pick the hostname up the first time around. If it's set in an existing lease that is just confirmed, it works, but if you're starting without a lease, you won't get a hostname set (but it will be in the lease file, so if you restart before the lease expires you're OK). > This also isn't just pedantry because, as I noted before, specifying > the hostname will currently cause it to override the DHCP hostname > value even if it is specified (as it certainly is on *my* DHCP server :-) > and result in broken behavior for the aformentioned mailers. If we > were to fix that in our rc scripts, I could remove this assumption in > sysinstall in good conscience. Personally I'd prefer to just fix the DHCP client so that it correctly sets the hostname as obtained from the server... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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