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Date:      Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:22:42 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Subject:   Re: Setting default hostname to localhost
Message-ID:  <3A5EB0C2.F895825B@softweyr.com>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010110211942.86697B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20010110213538.A668@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <20010111102525.B28915@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010111151829.B76759@dragon.nuxi.com>

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David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> 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?

Add a FreeBSD-supplied dhclient-exit-hooks script.

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Wes Peters                                                     wes@softweyr.com


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