From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 10:14:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E154516A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:14:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (bay8-f49.bay8.hotmail.com [64.4.27.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBAB443D1F for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:14:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evantd@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:14:30 -0800 Received: from 128.208.59.136 by by8fd.bay8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:14:30 GMT X-Originating-IP: [128.208.59.136] X-Originating-Email: [evantd@hotmail.com] X-Sender: evantd@hotmail.com From: "Evan Dower" To: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:14:30 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Feb 2004 18:14:30.0805 (UTC) FILETIME=[0F251C50:01C3F194] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname and dhcp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:14:31 -0000 Hmm... That is what I expected it to do, but when I tried it, I ended up with an empty hostname. Of course, I don't remember now if I commented out that line or just set it to empty. Actually, looking at /etc/defaults/rc.conf I see that if I comment it out in /etc/rc.conf it gets set to the empty string in the default, so it shouldn't matter. Anyway, like I said, I tried that and just ended up with an empty hostname. Perhaps that indicates something is wrong with my configuration... Thanks very much for the help (any other ideas?), -- Evan Dower Undergraduate, Computer Science University of Washington Public key: http://students.washington.edu/evantd/pgp-pub-key.txt Key fingerprint = D321 FA24 4BDA F82D 53A9 5B27 7D15 5A4F 033F 887D >From: Lowell Gilbert >To: "Evan Dower" >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: hostname and dhcp >Date: 12 Feb 2004 13:04:38 -0500 > >"Evan Dower" writes: > > > I've actually been running FreeBSD for quite a while now, but I've > > never known exactly how to handle this. In rc.conf, one must specify a > > hostname. If you're using DHCP to set up your network though, your > > FQDN (fully qualified domain name) can change without notice. It seems > > like a Good Idea to have your hostname be your FQDN, since some things > > will do a reverse lookup on your IP to verify that it matches the > > hostname you supplied. In particular I'm thinking of SMTP servers > > here. (send-pr doesn't work for me because my mail gets rejected.) So, > > when you're autoconfiguring your network interfaces, what should you > > put in rc.conf's hostname variable? Is there something else I can do > > that would allow me to have something nicer looking, but still send my > > FQDN when asked? > >If you don't set your hostname in rc.conf, dhclient should change it >for you when it finds out what it is. > >-- >Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: > resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ > username/password "public" _________________________________________________________________ Check out the great features of the new MSN 9 Dial-up, with the MSN Dial-up Accelerator. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/