Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 19:54:39 -0700 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> To: "Roger Bacon" <Roger@aeon-uk.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: hostname Message-ID: <007a01bfc919$3ef56c20$0200000a@danco>
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> I have a home network. FreeBSD is running as the only non MSWIN machine >out of 5, all connected to the outside by going through one MSWIN machine >with winroute pro as a gateway/DCHP server. DCHP server is not picking up >the hostname of the FreeBSD machine although it is assigning an IP address, >and on the FreeBSD machine apache is complaining 'unable to gethostbyname'. >when I logon to the FreeBSD it tells me its hostname, as does hostname. > >Any ideas? Just the obvious: Why aren't you using the FreeBSD box as the gateway machine/DHCP server? You'll find FreeBSD much more robust than using Windows for that purpose... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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