From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 17 19:11:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C228C16A54C for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:11:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from a50.ironport.com (a50.ironport.com [63.251.108.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB0F043D55 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:11:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from unknown (HELO [10.251.17.229]) ([10.251.17.229]) by a50.ironport.com with ESMTP; 17 Mar 2006 11:11:24 -0800 Message-ID: <441B09DA.1010902@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:11:22 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050727 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: joerg@britannica.bec.de References: <200603171502.k2HF2IV3086523@pinky.frank-behrens.de> <20060317151220.GA26987@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <20060317151220.GA26987@britannica.bec.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFE] dhclient(8) should send hostname X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:11:30 -0000 joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote: >On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:02:17PM +0100, Frank Behrens wrote: > > >>I propose a change, that dhclient sends always the current hostname >>to the server, the value can be overwritten in dhclient.conf. I see >>no negative impact, because the server has always the possibility to >>reject the name and to choose another one. It would simplify the >>setup and lead to the same behaviour as in other (operating) systems. >>A possible (I'm sure not the best) solution I appended as attachment. >> >> > >I object this, since it is one of the most annoying default behaviours >of Windows. It is the first thing I disable on all clients -- I have a >static name mapping, why should I update the DNS zone? > >Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of zones where the >host update request is ignored far outweights the number of >configurations where it is wanted. At least Bind sometimes like to whine >about it. > > it would certainly make life easier sometimes. >Joerg >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >