Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

> IMHO, that is the wrong assumption.  Most DHCP servers I've seen aren't
> setup to provide hostnames to the requrestor.

Seems they're set up incorrectly then.  You can't be a good "network
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.

This also isn't just pedantry because, as I noted before, specifying
the hostname will currently cause it to override the DHCP hostname
value even if it is specified (as it certainly is on *my* DHCP server :-)
and result in broken behavior for the aformentioned mailers.  If we
were to fix that in our rc scripts, I could remove this assumption in
sysinstall in good conscience.

- Jordan


To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message