From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 27 19:16:10 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 5456414C82 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:16:08 -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 TAA41877 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:15:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA82834 for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:15:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:15:35 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Message-ID: <20000127191535.B82635@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20000127180916.B82262@dragon.nuxi.com> <200001280222.SAA05076@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001280222.SAA05076@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 06:22:55PM -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 06:22:55PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > Correct behaviour would be not to set the hostname unless: > a) it is not already set > or > b) it was previously set by the DHCP client > > You could probably ignore b) and satisfy most people. At the moment, the > hostname is _never_ set by the DHCP client _unless_ it finds a lease that > is still valid. This is clearly a bug. Agreed. I will happily accept a patch anybody that got to this before I manage do. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message