Re: Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-12 Thread Alexander Hall
On 01/12/12 18:18, ropers wrote: On 12 January 2012 13:33, wrote: BTW, what seems to work is: supersede domain-name "."; Makes sense, because the . means root (i.e. the domain name root), which incidentally is why http://www.openbsd.org./ also works. Not incidentally. Intentionally. It ex

Re: Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-12 Thread ropers
On 12 January 2012 13:33, wrote: > BTW, what seems to work is: > > supersede domain-name "."; Makes sense, because the . means root (i.e. the domain name root), which incidentally is why http://www.openbsd.org./ also works.

Re: Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-12 Thread scire
Andres Perera wrote: >> don't know if you can use >> >> supersede domain-name ""; > > this constantly comes up on the list for some reason. it shouldn't > because it doesn't do anything I pointed some months ago to this problem. It seems the only "clean" alternative is to write your own dhclie

Re: Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-11 Thread Andres Perera
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:22 PM, bofh wrote: > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Josh Jevosh wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I'm installing OpenBSD 5.0. When I configure the networking to DHCP it goes >> ahead and sets the DNS domain name to something that it got from my ISP. I >> would like to only use the

Re: Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-04 Thread bofh
There are other free ones, but dyndns have been severely abused by all the cheap router manufacturers. Someone needs to pay the electric bill. And I believe the sysadmins like to eat every now and then. "If you don't want to pay for it, then it is a want, not a need." -- http://www.glumbert.co

Re: Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-01 Thread bofh
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Josh Jevosh wrote: > Hello. > > I'm installing OpenBSD 5.0. When I configure the networking to DHCP it goes > ahead and sets the DNS domain name to something that it got from my ISP. I > would like to only use the short name that I specified as the hostname as > the

Install without the DNS domain name from DHCP

2012-01-01 Thread Josh Jevosh
Hello. I'm installing OpenBSD 5.0. When I configure the networking to DHCP it goes ahead and sets the DNS domain name to something that it got from my ISP. I would like to only use the short name that I specified as the hostname as the entire hostname excluding the rest of it that comes from my IS