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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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