From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 25 00:12:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F4216A41C for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 00:12:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (cdm-66-76-92-18.cart.cox-internet.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD0543D48 for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 00:12:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.157.226]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4P0Cj3a039830; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:12:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4293C2C6.7080507@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:11:50 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050428 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bazzoola References: <4293A79F.5090909@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4293A79F.5090909@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname and domains X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 00:12:54 -0000 >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of bazzoola >> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:55 PM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: hostname and domains >> >> >> Greetings, >> >> I have Three workstations all of them are pretty much setup the same >> way. All of them use DHCP and all of them connect to the same server >> (I do not know what is it running as of now) >> >> The first workstation is Windows XP. It receives its IP and hostname >> correct basically I get 10.0.0.201 and winxp.mydomain.com as a >> hostname both host and IP resolve to each other correctly >> The second workstation is Mac OS X. It receives similar enough >> 10.0.0.202 and macosx.mydomain.com as a hostname both IP and >> hostname resolve to each other correctly. >> >> The third which is a FreeBSD 5.4-Release receives an IP address >> 10.0.0.203 but does not get a hostname. Well the hostname is setup >> in rc.conf as bsd01 but the DNS in the domain is not aware of it for >> some reason. >> >> The NS can resolve macosx and winxp but it cannot resolve the >> hostname for bsd01. >> >> Any thoughts what is going here? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> bazzoola >> There is some magic you must perform on the dhcp server and to dhclient.conf; see dhclient.conf(5) for details. HTH, Kevin Kinsey