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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:04:33 -0500
From: Mark J Tomko <mtomko@prime.cs.ohiou.edu>
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Subject: Getting a hostname from DHCP
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I've been using FreeBSD on a network with DHCP since October and I've
been trying to get it to read a hostname from the network automatically,
but to no avail.  At the moment, I'm using 3.4.

I can determine my hostname by logging in to another system and typing
"who", but locally, I have to set the hostname before the hostname
command will return anything.  This was never a problem when I was using
Linux, but with BSD I can't figure it out.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Mark


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