From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 27 18: 9:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F267B14FA8; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:09:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA41621; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:09:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA82329; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:09:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:09:16 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Mike Smith Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Message-ID: <20000127180916.B82262@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <46146.949017991@zippy.cdrom.com> <200001280020.QAA03272@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001280020.QAA03272@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 04:20:54PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 04:20:54PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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). Are you sure? In the case I know you experience, the server changed its behavior WRT handing out hostnames. I don't doubt that such a switch mid-stream in using DHCP would confuse things. > Personally I'd prefer to just fix the DHCP client so that it correctly > sets the hostname as obtained from the server... Nope. Poll larger shops first on their DHCP usage. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message