From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 15:18:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50EE237B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:18:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipitythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA45015; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:18:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0BNIU278196; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:18:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:18:30 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Brooks Davis Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting default hostname to localhost Message-ID: <20010111151829.B76759@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010110213538.A668@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20010111102525.B28915@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010111102525.B28915@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:25:25AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:25:25AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > I submitted one possiable solution to this problem in PR:conf/18583 > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18583 Have you submitted this back to the ISC? > Other solutions include just letting DHCP smash the hostname all the > time or having a variable like dhcp_override_hostname in rc.conf. While The ISC's dhclient mailing list would be the right place to discuss this and find a good fix. > I understand the concern that we don't want to maintain out own dhcp > version, dhclient-script isn't on the vendor branch anyway. So? Do you not understand the maintance headache this creates? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message