From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 02:30:12 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 C9A7116A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 02:30:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mout2.freenet.de (mout2.freenet.de [194.97.50.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06063440A5 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 02:29:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owen_pg@freenet.de) Received: from [194.97.50.136] (helo=mx3.freenet.de) by mout2.freenet.de with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1APfsF-0007zd-7Z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:29:19 +0100 Received: from pd9eb6305.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([217.235.99.5] helo=192.168.1.248) by mx3.freenet.de with asmtp (ID owen_pg@freenet.de) (Exim 4.24 #2) id 1APfsE-0000RJ-R7 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:29:18 +0100 From: Owen_PG To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:29:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311281129.18703.owen_pg@freenet.de> Subject: DHCP - "Cannot get IP address of my own host" 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: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:30:12 -0000 X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:30:12 -0000 I'm runnng my newly built PC as a DHCP client of a Linux box. The previous Linux client and any MS Windows clients worked fine "straight out of the box". With the FreeBSD 5.1 - 10 client, if I enable it as a DHCP client then it doesn't seem to use the DNS caching slave that is on the DHCP server. But all other clients can resolve URLs on the Internet. If I log onto a virtual terminal I can use cvsup OK but if I start up KDE and use it in a KDE Konsole it comes back with: mk1 root 510-->cd ~ mk1 root 511-->pwd /root ~ mk1 root 512-->cvsup stable-supfile Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? ~ mk1 root 513--> I have left /etc/dhclient.conf blank. If I replace the /etc/rc.conf file entry with a hard coded IP address everything works again. Any ideas gratefully recieved, Owen (Newbie to BSD)