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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] setting sysname properly on DHCP systems
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:40:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B094018.C3F078F@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200105200453.f4K4rui14073@ducky.net>

Mike Haertel wrote:
> Is there any reason not to put ip/ipconfig *before* ndb/cs
> in /bin/termrc, so that ndb/cs can properly set the sysname
> on systems that get their IP address by DHCP?

I don't know if this is the same question, but:
What does one do if the hostname (within the domain)
is purely a creation of the host and not known on
the "outboard" side of the internet interface adapter?
A DSL provider I use takes this approach, as well as
using DHCP for other aspects of the interface, which
also seems to be Microsoft's preferred method (i.e.,
it's not going to get any better as time goes on).


      reply	other threads:[~2001-05-21 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-20  4:53 Mike Haertel
2001-05-21 16:40 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]

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