Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:58:19 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Cc: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d hostname Message-ID: <200702131558.34590.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20070212120908.GN13808@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <200702101313.l1ADDX8m056868@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070212034438.GA42410@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20070212120908.GN13808@comp.chem.msu.su>
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--nextPart1970242.hllLMYX34r Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 12 February 2007 22:39, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > I have no idea how many Unix hosts allow their hostname to be set > via DHCP. I prefer to think that a Unix host is like a good ship: > it never changes its name while furrowing the network seas. A DHCP > assigned hostname better fits crippled hosts such as diskless > stations etc. My laptop's name changes depending which network it's on. (ie the domain=20 part). It would be nice if it would try to get the name specified in hostname via= =20 DHCP (for dynamic DNS setups), if that fails check what the DHCP server gav= e=20 it, failing that do a reverse lookup on the IP. Unfortunately it's not easy to do that because of how /etc/rc.d/* and dhcli= ent=20 interact.. Furthermore X (for one) gets really annoyed when you change=20 hostname.. (I can dream :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1970242.hllLMYX34r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBF0UyC5ZPcIHs/zowRAtebAJ0c983o39LLuMNZSmy/7dPIyCvJegCfcRXY jaoPo4uVQYGSscyUc6QEiRc= =0Iu8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1970242.hllLMYX34r--
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