From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 25 15:44:13 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 5CEB416A423 for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 15:44:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bazzoola@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633AE43D49 for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 15:44:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bazzoola@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so266033wra for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 08:44:11 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=s0VMW2pZ6SbOec0ac6YaSB/GMPwamp7TG9DZOKI/183vU8loUrpVEPtPXdx/9IxAmA7tFnunUHzajQ0REHVnRpMn7h0lOrQk9GYjt06KP5Auf/lNStAzzrlWLRlj94R/LZ5luJj0v3qHyKtrtq4u9PolcYMZuaCSREK7rCMXqQE= Received: by 10.54.40.57 with SMTP id n57mr393462wrn; Wed, 25 May 2005 08:44:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?180.0.7.97? ([205.153.101.8]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 29sm36020wrl.2005.05.25.08.44.11; Wed, 25 May 2005 08:44:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42949D84.5030407@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:45:08 -0500 From: bazzoola User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Kinsey References: <4293A79F.5090909@gmail.com> <4293C2C6.7080507@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <4293C2C6.7080507@daleco.biz> 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 15:44:15 -0000 Kevin Kinsey wrote: > >>> -----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 > Thanks for the suggestion Kevin To fix the problem I added the following to dhclient.conf # -- send host-name "mbsd01.mydomain.com"; request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers, domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name; require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers, domain-name; # -- bazzoola