Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 04:20:54PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> Actually, the problem here is that our dhclient doesn't pick the hostname 
> up the first time around.  If it's set in an existing lease that is just 
> confirmed, it works, but if you're starting without a lease, you won't 
> get a hostname set (but it will be in the lease file, so if you restart 
> before the lease expires you're OK).

Are you sure?  In the case I know you experience, the server changed its
behavior WRT handing out hostnames.  I don't doubt that such a switch
mid-stream in using DHCP would confuse things.

> Personally I'd prefer to just fix the DHCP client so that it correctly 
> sets the hostname as obtained from the server...

Nope.  Poll larger shops first on their DHCP usage.
 
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