From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 21 08:19:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A0E16A412 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:19:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from eskimo.tundraware.com (eskimo.tundraware.com [66.92.130.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0808343D46 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:19:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by eskimo.tundraware.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAL8JJcM086842 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:19:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4562B685.5020807@tundraware.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:19:17 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <456259CB.1060002@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <456259CB.1060002@tundraware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-tundraware.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.399, required 1, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: Dynamic Hostname Assignment With dhcpd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:19:28 -0000 Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I am running isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.4_1 on a FBSD 4.11-stable machine. OK, I mostly have figured this out at this point. I am able to dynamically allocate addresses from a pool and associate a name with that address that makes sense from the point of view of DNS. However ... the client seems to accept this name only if it does not already have a hostname assigned. That is, if the hostname is "". How do I configure dhcp to *force* the client to accept the name dhcp has cooked up and override the name that is already in place on the client machine? This behavior is noted both when I allocate a dynamic address/name with dhcp OR if I use dhcp to hand out static IP/name combinations (based on the requesting machine's MAC address). Help much appreciated... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/