Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:07:53 +0400 From: Alexey Karguine <bm@netmaster.ru> To: Bill Schmitt <bilsch@schmittnet.com> Cc: "Bill Schmitt \(SW\)" <software@schmittnet.com> Subject: Re: Host name question Message-ID: <41768D59.8010405@netmaster.ru> In-Reply-To: <41768463.6030101@schmittnet.com> References: <4176477D.2030207@schmittnet.com> <20041020141728.GA63941@ei.bzerk.org> <41768463.6030101@schmittnet.com>
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Bill Schmitt wrote: > Well, every other computer on the network is listed as an "attached > device" except the FBSD box. And, when I've booted Knoppix in the > past, it showed up, too. > > Also, when I start Apache (2.0) I receive a message "Could not > determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 > for ServerName. > Ruben de Groot wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:09:49AM -0400, Bill Schmitt (SW) typed: > > >I know I've seen the answer to this question somewhere here, but I can't >seem to find it. I'm running FBSD 4.9 on a machine which is connected to >a router (Netgear) that provides DHCP services. The FBSD box gets the IP >correctly (assigned based on the MAC address), but the router never sees >it by name. I have the name of the machine in the hosts file and >rc.conf, but the router never gets the name back. Can anyone help? > > >What makes you think the router *should* get the name back? > > Please, show contents of /etc/resolv.conf file on your machine.
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