BeagleBone questions (was Re: Towards an ARM system-building script)

Ian Lepore freebsd at damnhippie.dyndns.org
Mon Oct 29 15:02:14 UTC 2012


On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 20:50 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Alie Tan wrote:
> > 
> > I've found that the "hostname" on rc.conf file is not appears on my Router,
> > its empty.
> 
> I could be wrong, but I think you need to explicitly
> configure FreeBSD dhclient to advertise a hostname.

I don't think so.  The /etc/dhclient.conf is empty on all my machines,
and they all register their hostnames with DNS via DHCP automatically.
(I had to do something to the dhcpd config years ago to allow it, but I
forget what.)

-- Ian



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