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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:18:30 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Setting default hostname to localhost
Message-ID:  <20010111151829.B76759@dragon.nuxi.com>
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
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>

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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


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