From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 20:19:17 2003 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 891DE37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from babyruth.hotpop.com (babyruth.hotpop.com [204.57.55.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A1A43F75 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:19:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rod.person@hotpop.com) Received: from hotpop.com (kubrick.hotpop.com [204.57.55.16]) by babyruth.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D79124A98E for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:19:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ROLAND (c-67-163-195-9.client.comcast.net [67.163.195.9]) by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA201A02B6 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:19:10 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 23:18:45 -0400 From: Rod Person To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030725231845.2530275f.rod.person@hotpop.com> In-Reply-To: <1059104955.630.25.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> References: <1059098593.630.13.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> <20030724233757.37012918.rod.person@hotpop.com> <1059104955.630.25.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> Organization: Open Source Beef X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment 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: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:19:17 -0000 On 25 Jul 2003 03:49:15 +0000 Shawn wrote: > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 03:37, Rod Person wrote: > > I assume your isp uses DHCP. If so, did you try ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" in your /etc/rc.conf. > > First that's already set, I selected DHCP configuration of the network > interface during setup and installation. That's how my IP address gets > assigned. It's only the hostname that isn't being dynamically assigned > for some reason. This is what puzzles me because previous Linux > distributions I've used have all done this without any extra > intervention on my part. Does you host name get set to anything at all? Did you accidently set the hostname in your rc.conf in /etc or /etc/defaults? If that not set may host name becomes a hostname set by DHCP which is a long string containing the ip address. Only if I've set hostname to something else do it give me something else. -- Rod @ Home So No Cool Signature http://opensourcebeef.bsd.st