Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:00:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: Shawn <drevil@warpcore.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment Message-ID: <20030725115914.G24957@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <1059105815.630.29.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> References: <1059098593.630.13.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> <1059104868.630.22.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> <1059105815.630.29.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com>
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> Yes, my ISP's DHCP server should assign me a hostname. I assumed that's > how it was done by dhclient on RedHat7.3/8/9 all of which just did this > automatically whenever I selected DHCP configuration of the interface. > I've been comparing FreeBSD 5.1's default dhclient-script to RedHat's > trying to discern if that's where the difference is, or if there's just > a subtle bug in the version of dhclient included with FreeBSD 5.1 > > I want to use dynamic hostname assignment so that my hostname will have > valid reverse DNS. > Like I said before, you might want to look around in redhat's dhcp scripts. If I understand correctly, dhclient calls a script that does the actual ifconfig, etc... FreeBSD's probably doesn't use set the hostname from the script, while redhat does. Ken
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