> Yes, my ISP's DHCP server should assign me a hostname. I assumed that's > how it was done by dhclient on RedHat7.3/8/9 all of which just did this > automatically whenever I selected DHCP configuration of the interface. > I've been comparing FreeBSD 5.1's default dhclient-script to RedHat's > trying to discern if that's where the difference is, or if there's just > a subtle bug in the version of dhclient included with FreeBSD 5.1 > > I want to use dynamic hostname assignment so that my hostname will have > valid reverse DNS. > Like I said before, you might want to look around in redhat's dhcp scripts. If I understand correctly, dhclient calls a script that does the actual ifconfig, etc... FreeBSD's probably doesn't use set the hostname from the script, while redhat does.
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