hostname problem on a local network
Bill Schmitt (SW)
software at schmittnet.com
Mon May 2 08:48:29 PDT 2005
I have a FreeBSD 4.9 system on a private network, connected to the
internet through a Netgear router/firewall which acts as a DHCP server
and receives its names through netbios. I'm trying to set it to respond
to the fully qualified name "schfrbsd.lan". In my rc.conf, I have the line:
hostname="schfrbsd.lan"
I've also tried adding a dot to the end of it:
hostname="schfrbsd.lan."
Whatever I do, I cannot get the machine to register itself on the
network (though Samba) as schfrbsd.lan. It always shows up as schfrbsd.
"hostname -s" returns the same value.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Bill
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