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From: Harikesavan Krishnan <harikesa@cs.sunysb.edu>
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Subject: Unable to get hostname through DHCP
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Hi,

  I have installed FreeBSD in a machine over an NFS. I have enabled the
DHCP options, for my server to assign an IP and a hostname to this m/c.
While this machine picks up the IP address, it doesnt seem to catch
the hostname supplied by the DNS. I have disabled the hostname field in
/etc/rc.conf.

Could you please help me out with this.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Hari