hostname and domains

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Tue May 24 17:12:54 PDT 2005


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of bazzoola
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:55 PM
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: hostname and domains
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have Three workstations all of them are pretty much setup the same
>> way. All of them use DHCP and all of them connect to the same server
>> (I do not know what is it running as of now)
>>
>> The first workstation is Windows XP. It receives its IP and hostname
>> correct basically I get 10.0.0.201 and winxp.mydomain.com as a
>> hostname both host and IP resolve to each other correctly
>> The second workstation is Mac OS X. It receives similar enough
>> 10.0.0.202 and macosx.mydomain.com as a hostname both IP and
>> hostname resolve to each other correctly.
>>
>> The third which is a FreeBSD 5.4-Release receives an IP address
>> 10.0.0.203 but does not get a hostname. Well the hostname is setup
>> in rc.conf as bsd01 but the DNS in the domain is not aware of it for
>> some reason.
>>
>> The NS can resolve macosx and winxp but it cannot resolve the
>> hostname for bsd01.
>>
>> Any thoughts what is going here?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> bazzoola
>>

There is some magic you must perform on the dhcp server
and to dhclient.conf; see dhclient.conf(5) for details.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey


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