> <<On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:06:31 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > citizen" these days without a resolvable hostname that also matches
> > your primary IP address or, among other things, you won't be able to
> > send mail directly to anyone who practices traditional spam filtering
> > techniques.
>
> However, there is no need to actually use the configured hostname for
> this purpose. `temp-4224.lcs.mit.edu' is just that, temporary -- I
> want my machine to know what its *real* identity is.
>
> >From my perspective, when I'm installing a FreeBSD machine, the DHCP
> client option serves only to quick-start the installation -- the
> machine will eventually have a real address. It would be useful to me
> if sysinstall paid attention to the hostname I specified
That's not correct; your DHCP configuration should reflect the hostname.
Sysinstall doesn't fill in the hostname field because the crunched binary
is missing the hostname(1) command. If we were to add that, it's just
possible that we'd get hostnames working too.
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