computer is nameless??
 

i have two BSD machines in my house, and neither has a "name" according to my router.
i'm kind of confused by this, as i believe they both have "host names" is there a different name to set that it broadcasts to things like my router?

cheers again,
Tenshi

If you don't pass in the option to your dhcp client to tell the dhcp server your hostname then you will not broadcast a name at all...

edit the /etc/dhclient.conf file and your router will get the info.

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Yes! Thank you.

I added the line:

send host-name "myhost";

to my /etc/dhclient.conf file, it solved the problem without further headaches. Thank you so much :D

I figured this one was easy, but I just didn't know which file to turn to.

thanks again,
Tenshi
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