computer is nameless??

Wumpa Tenshi · 06-01-2005, 09:57 PM

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

jtshaw · 06-03-2005, 06:48 AM

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...

danielanson · 06-05-2005, 03:08 AM

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

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Wumpa Tenshi · 06-06-2005, 11:27 PM

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

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

thanks again,
Tenshi