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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