Re: How dhcp client can set its hostname properly on lease time

Hi,

Thanks everyone for giving me useful reply.
Now, my stupid problem has been solved by setting 'get-lease-hostnames 
true;' in dhcpd.conf file.

Cheers

(4:59), Mamoru Iwaki wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> I'm using FreeBSD 8 stable as of 20101006. It is a dhcp client in a
> private local network, and xorg staff is installed. When I tried to use
> it from a remote pc with X11-forwarding set, xauth failed to set up
> .Xauthority as follows.
>
> /usr/local/bin/xauth: creating new authority file /home/hogehoge/.Xauthority
> /usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "unix:10.0" in
> "remove" command
> /usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):2: bad display name "unix:10.0" in "add"
> command
>
> At this moment, hostname was not set (it's empty) because the FreeBSD
> box was a dhcp client. Meanwhile, if the hostname coresponding to the
> ip-address assigned by dhcp server was set manually, the above lines
> disappeared and X11-forwarding worked well.
>
>
> Now, my question is
>
> Are there good way for dhcp client to set its hostname properly on lease
> time?
>
>
> The following will be a possble workaround, but I'm wondering there can
> be a smart answer in FreeBSD itself.
>
> It is possible to resolve the hostname corresponding to a dhcp-delivered
> ip-address with a local name server. So, (1) resolve the corresponding
> hostname from the local name server, (2) set it as hostname, and (3)
> call them every time when dhcp lease is updated

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Mamoru IWAKI
Grad. Schl. Sci & Tech./Dept. Biocybernetics, Niigata University

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