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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:04:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Ippei Yoshioka <peterjunk@yahoo.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: dhclient problem
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Is your DNS setup correctly?  If you're getting an IP address
successfully, but you're not able to connect to a machine via hostname,
then I'd look at DNS.  In most cases, you don't need to write a
dhclient.conf (a blank file will work).  None-the-less, this is what I
have for my main router:

timeout 60;
retry 60;
reboot 30;
select-timeout 5;
initial-interval 2;

interface "ed0" {
    supersede domain-name "marcuscom.com";
    prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
}

All my other FreeBSD machines are statically addressed.

Joe Clarke

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Ippei Yoshioka wrote:

> Hi there.
> I'm pretty new in FreeBSD world. And I have a question
> about '/etc/dhclient.conf'. Could someone helped me
> out? My Gnome with Sawfish could not get its host
> name, so I could not use Netscape from my desktop.
>
> The situation is this; I'm using my FreeBSD machine at
> home as one of my local hosts. There are Mac and Win
> machine on the LAN as dhcp client and there is a DHCP
> server. The DHCP server is actually working also
> default router to fook the internet via a cavle modem.
>
>
> So, I write '/etc/dhclient.conf' like this:
>
> retry 60;
> reboot 10;
> inital-interval 2;
>
> ibterface "ed1" {
>         send host-name "biblo";
>         supersede domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
>         request subnet-mask, broadcast-address,
> time-offset, routers,
> domain-name, domain-name-servers;
>         require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
>         script "/sbin/dhclient-script";
> }
>
>
> At console, every thing seems to be fine. Command
> 'hostname' reply to me right host name. I could ping
> also by IP address (not host name). I can mail, I can
> telnet remort host, I can FTP. BUT once I booted X,
> Gnome could NOT get host name, so I could NOT use
> Netscape or other browser from my desk top. How should
> I do?
>
> Could someone helped me out?
>
> Thanx.
>
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