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From: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Resolving IP through DHCP on LAN (II)
To: "Bert Hiddink [Bendoo]" <hiddink@bendoo.com>,
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--- "Bert Hiddink [Bendoo]" <hiddink@bendoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for the replies!
> 
> However, this is how my dhclient.conf looks like:
> 
> interface "xl0" {
>          send host-name "delta";
>          send dhcp-lease-time 600;
>          }
> 
> but it does not seem to communicate with the dhcp-service from the
> router as the active DHCP-table 
> still shows the same (see below).
> 
> Any further ideas?
> 
> Regards!
> 
> -brt
> 

I have a similar problem here, although it is more noticable with a
dynamic DNS. The host-name option has got it working semi-reliably
(although dhcpd will not remove a dns entry that was ther before
named/dhcp started (Machine reboots etc) and when switching from win to
bsd the dns will regularly fail to update)

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