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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