From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Mar 21 23:57:36 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756C0F500C1 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:57:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dch@skunkwerks.at) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 17B8D70220 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:57:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dch@skunkwerks.at) Received: from compute7.internal (compute7.nyi.internal [10.202.2.47]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3498A21CC5; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:57:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web6 ([10.202.2.216]) by compute7.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:57:35 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=skunkwerks.at; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from :in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to :x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=WYuZ1WOSFBsSnaEjM p8uZXk5rWLxssSRx0rDicbMg+I=; b=kzKx9beWzvQdUR7bZ4mtVZWJt71x6AcGp CGNohLhNMETXLSexrcXegJx+Lb6NUNnQ+rsoR7UdQ9A5VJwEqFxpLn5OLUX4CWWm Lb+Y6FOZl7BP2n7j7h7JmdV4qCDlTLbyHTGmbkKINunrTAAqjPlpQ71cfqHKqQIW GtCkA5uYHZxmbz5eZz6TT++zzUH12ycemGTRLQ5hx9pE99O3SWPFha8qVF95QeDB pJiSHz8ARU2tuA+uKRP5MsdIqQrdTA8GsnSjmt9L35Vu81k6v265FcLMKomIkkBD +Eeqygje4Dcei3i2/DUwjGzn8QHzwTjGqmOQKfQivd7Nt/VFImpdQ== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=WYuZ1W OSFBsSnaEjMp8uZXk5rWLxssSRx0rDicbMg+I=; b=IGByOGXIEoa/Rrcalil2mM eYJZBjf54rKicdL9AWNp2Jqp2/nprB+HslMvZaVUWy0TOKvDF3IwzLD1NqzpIHA2 CXkFmWvKovZ+oxv5pEVIwOQwtzTy80bImy0Iqn9+WAm4ZCAFxEBIc3iwXGdsJB/e 2SE0eHL/bio5XleQkb7T0+OtcBYshMX1eNmuTlyQKC+FjeZDl75j82EKbZzJ/1gW jIcxZm0S2TLkD6riT/eHtAhY1ZS+nX7vMXWRYio/4wRvYXLv/1yoDnVFZ1JPjLm8 CQ9Ex4fPg07/PCLav0Ai5oF3DHPSuMjLWTFhnOYC+1+GElsP0GLTHTKaLGEUWKlw == X-ME-Sender: Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 1541940F5; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:57:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1521676655.2542368.1311667264.1D0DED02@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Dave Cottlehuber To: Anton Shterenlikht Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-5ce6c4ba In-Reply-To: <20180321213005.GA73927@jail0199.vps.exonetric.net> References: <201803211834.w2LIY9Jh059885@jail0199.vps.exonetric.net> <79cc198c-daa9-1cb2-020f-d11d7d3d396a@yandex.com> <20180321213005.GA73927@jail0199.vps.exonetric.net> Subject: Re: how to set hostname on a cable line? Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:57:35 +0100 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:57:36 -0000 On Wed, 21 Mar 2018, at 22:30, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:47:50AM +0530, Manish Jain wrote: > > On 03/22/18 00:04, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > I cannot seem to set hostname > > > correctly on a home laptop, > > > which has a wireless connection > > > to a cable router. > > > > > > How do I do it? > > > > > > I have > > > > > > hostname="" > > > ifconfig_wlan0="SYNCDHCP WPA" > > > > > > in /etc/rc.conf > > > > > > According to rc.conf(5): > > > > > > If dhclient(8) is used to set the hostname via DHCP, this > > > variable should be set to an empty string. > > > > > > But I still get empty hostname after boot: There is possibly a setting on your router to address this, but I use the following dhclient settings which will override whatever your wifi router decides to send you. # /etc/dhclient.conf # $FreeBSD$ # # This file is required by the ISC DHCP client. # See ``man 5 dhclient.conf'' for details. interface "wlan0" { send host-name "yourhost.example.org"; send dhcp-lease-time 864000; supersede domain-search "example.org"; supersede domain-name-servers 9.9.9.9; request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers; } A+ Dave