Unable to get hostname through DHCP

[Daniel Bye]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 04:35:53PM -0400, Harikesavan Krishnan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I have installed FreeBSD in a machine over an NFS. I have enabled the
> DHCP options, for my server to assign an IP and a hostname to this m/c.
> While this machine picks up the IP address, it doesnt seem to catch
> the hostname supplied by the DNS. I have disabled the hostname field in
> /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> Could you please help me out with this.

Try putting a "require" directive in your /etc/dhclient.conf:

interface "xl0" {
    require host-name;
}

where you will change "xl0" for the name of the DHCP interface on your
machine.  Then relaunch dhclient.

Check out the dhclient(8), dhclient.conf(5) and dhcp-options(5) man pages
for many more config options.

HTH

Dan

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