Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:06:31 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Message-ID: <46146.949017991@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:42:07 PST." <20000127144207.A81615@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> IMHO, that is the wrong assumption. Most DHCP servers I've seen aren't > setup to provide hostnames to the requrestor. Seems they're set up incorrectly then. You can't be a good "network citizen" these days without a resolvable hostname that also matches your primary IP address or, among other things, you won't be able to send mail directly to anyone who practices traditional spam filtering techniques. This also isn't just pedantry because, as I noted before, specifying the hostname will currently cause it to override the DHCP hostname value even if it is specified (as it certainly is on *my* DHCP server :-) and result in broken behavior for the aformentioned mailers. If we were to fix that in our rc scripts, I could remove this assumption in sysinstall in good conscience. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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