From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 16:18:35 2004 Return-Path: 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 7B72C16A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:18:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from idesigns.net (idesigns.net [209.239.38.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C9543D31 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:18:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from software@schmittnet.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ct-seymour2d-19.wtrbct.adelphia.net [68.71.172.19]) by idesigns.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9KGIUii021483; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:18:31 -0400 Message-ID: <41768FD9.1060805@schmittnet.com> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:18:33 -0400 From: "Bill Schmitt (SW)" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Karguine References: <4176477D.2030207@schmittnet.com> <20041020141728.GA63941@ei.bzerk.org> <41768463.6030101@schmittnet.com> <41768D59.8010405@netmaster.ru> In-Reply-To: <41768D59.8010405@netmaster.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Ruben de Groot cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: "Bill Schmitt \(SW\)" Subject: Re: Host name question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:18:35 -0000 Alexey Karguine wrote: > Bill Schmitt wrote: > >> Well, every other computer on the network is listed as an "attached >> device" except the FBSD box. And, when I've booted Knoppix in the >> past, it showed up, too. >> >> Also, when I start Apache (2.0) I receive a message "Could not >> determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 >> for ServerName. >> Ruben de Groot wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:09:49AM -0400, Bill Schmitt (SW) typed: >> >> >> I know I've seen the answer to this question somewhere here, but I >> can't seem to find it. I'm running FBSD 4.9 on a machine which is >> connected to a router (Netgear) that provides DHCP services. The FBSD >> box gets the IP correctly (assigned based on the MAC address), but >> the router never sees it by name. I have the name of the machine in >> the hosts file and rc.conf, but the router never gets the name back. >> Can anyone help? >> >> What makes you think the router *should* get the name back? >> >> > Please, show contents of /etc/resolv.conf file on your machine. > Two lines in resolv.conf: search albyny.adelphia.net nameserver 192.168.0.1 Thanks, Bill