From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 28 19:55: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A658737BA42 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 19:54:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA00926; Sun, 28 May 2000 19:54:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <007a01bfc919$3ef56c20$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Roger Bacon" , Subject: Re: hostname Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 19:54:39 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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