From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 14:16:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A9F106566C for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:16:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.lidl@cello.com) Received: from Mail.Fairview-Park.Com (Mail.Fairview-Park.Com [98.141.206.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEE68FC19 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:16:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.8.101] (Kurt.Fairview-Park.Com [192.168.8.101]) (authenticated bits=0) by Mail.Fairview-Park.Com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o97E4kBj028497 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 10:04:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kurt.lidl@cello.com) X-FVP-rcvd: Kurt.Fairview-Park.Com [192.168.8.101] Thu, 7 Oct 2010 10:04:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4CADD379.8010806@cello.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:04:41 -0400 From: Kurt Lidl Organization: Cello Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.3 at Mail.Fairview-Park.Com X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: How dhcp client can set its hostname properly on lease time X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:16:50 -0000 Regarding your posting to freebsd-stable. Probably what you want to do is have the DHCP server send the machine name when it offers a lease to the client. -Kurt