Host name question

[Ruben de Groot]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:09:49AM -0400, Bill Schmitt (SW) typed:
> I know I've seen the answer to this question somewhere here, but I can't 
> seem to find it. I'm running FBSD 4.9 on a machine which is connected to 
> a router (Netgear) that provides DHCP services. The FBSD box gets the IP 
> correctly (assigned based on the MAC address), but the router never sees 
> it by name. I have the name of the machine in the hosts file and 
> rc.conf, but the router never gets the name back. Can anyone help?

What makes you think the router *should* get the name back?