Re: Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-12 Thread scire
Andres Perera andre...@zoho.com wrote: don't know if you can use supersede domain-name ; this constantly comes up on the list for some reason. it shouldn't because it doesn't do anything I pointed some months ago to this problem. It seems the only clean alternative is to write your own

Re: Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-12 Thread ropers
On 12 January 2012 13:33, sc...@web.de wrote: BTW, what seems to work is: supersede domain-name .; Makes sense, because the . means root (i.e. the domain name root), which incidentally is why http://www.openbsd.org./ also works.

Re: Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-12 Thread Alexander Hall
On 01/12/12 18:18, ropers wrote: On 12 January 2012 13:33,sc...@web.de wrote: BTW, what seems to work is: supersede domain-name .; Makes sense, because the . means root (i.e. the domain name root), which incidentally is why http://www.openbsd.org./ also works. Not incidentally.

Re: Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-11 Thread Andres Perera
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:22 PM, bofh goodb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Josh Jevosh jev...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I'm installing OpenBSD 5.0. When I configure the networking to DHCP it goes ahead and sets the DNS domain name to something that it got from my ISP. I

Re: Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-04 Thread bofh
There are other free ones, but dyndns have been severely abused by all the cheap router manufacturers. Someone needs to pay the electric bill. And I believe the sysadmins like to eat every now and then. If you don't want to pay for it, then it is a want, not a need. --

Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-01 Thread Josh Jevosh
Hello. I'm installing OpenBSD 5.0. When I configure the networking to DHCP it goes ahead and sets the DNS domain name to something that it got from my ISP. I would like to only use the short name that I specified as the hostname as the entire hostname excluding the rest of it that comes from my

Re: Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-01 Thread bofh
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Josh Jevosh jev...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I'm installing OpenBSD 5.0. When I configure the networking to DHCP it goes ahead and sets the DNS domain name to something that it got from my ISP. I would like to only use the short name that I specified as the