Dynamic Hostname Assignment

[Lowell Gilbert]

Kenneth Culver <culverk at yumyumyum.org> writes:

> 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.

The standard dhclient-script sets the hostname.
At least, it sure *looks* like it does...
[line 97 of src/contrib/isc-dhcp/client/scripts/freebsd,v 1.9.2.6]