From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 15:21:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0B25D49 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:21:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.sorbs.net (hades.sorbs.net [67.231.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1BB32E for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:21:24 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from isux.com (firewall.isux.com [213.165.190.213]) by hades.sorbs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.29.0 64bit (built Jul 9 2013)) with ESMTPSA id <0NDA00D3ADIIUT00@hades.sorbs.net> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 08:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <54394AF1.7000807@sorbs.net> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 17:21:21 +0200 From: Michelle Sullivan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100301 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 To: Christian Alge Subject: Re: Server insists on wrong hostname References: <5438F7A4.4070908@burnus.net> <54392A57.7020704@sorbs.net> <54393142.4050005@burnus.net> <5439326B.3070508@sorbs.net> <54393C76.7090702@burnus.net> <54393DBD.4030602@sorbs.net> <5439485F.4000002@burnus.net> In-reply-to: <5439485F.4000002@burnus.net> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:21:24 -0000 Christian Alge wrote: > I do not know, how to put it in debug mode. The manpages of dhclient and > dhclient.conf are not very helpful.. > Instead I reinvoked dhclient for the interface with dhcpdump running. > The output looks right to me (see below, slightly obfuscated).. Notice > that both the request and the reply contain the correct hostname (in > option 12). However, the hostname does not seem to be set in the end > (hostname still reports the old name). > And yes, I did restart the DHCP server after changing the config. > :) you are correct it does show the correct hostname in the DHCP reply... ok I'm as stumped as you... the only other option I can think is if something is setting HOSTNAME as an environmental variable (in your login shell) .. but I thought using the hostname command would read the system not your env ... so am stumped without getting onto the system myself and poking around (which even if that was an option for you, it wouldn't be for me, sorry.) Michelle -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/