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Date:      Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:37:57 -0400
From:      Rod Person <rod.person@hotpop.com>
To:        Shawn <drevil@warpcore.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment
Message-ID:  <20030724233757.37012918.rod.person@hotpop.com>
In-Reply-To: <1059098593.630.13.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com>
References:  <1059098593.630.13.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com>

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On 24 Jul 2003 21:03:13 -0500
Shawn <drevil@warpcore.org> wrote:

> When I recently installed and setup FreeBSD 5.1 on my box here at home,
> I noticed that it didn't dynamically set the hostname for me. When I
> used RedHat Linux 9 before it did.
> 
> Any suggestions?

I assume your isp uses DHCP. If so, did you try ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" in your /etc/rc.conf.

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Rod

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