Re: FQDNs for netbooted hosts via DHCP?

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, John D. Baker wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Roy Marples wrote:
> 
> > Sadly, all my machines are x86 based. I have an ERLITE mips router where I
> > also run dhcpcd, and it doesn't stamp on routes there either, so I'm pretty
> > sure this isn't an arch issue ... but I could be wrong.
> 
> The only route that was an issue was the local route to the NFS server.
> Somehow a netbooted x86 system can complete the configuration, but
> non-x86 dies as soon as 'dhcpcd' (or the earlier 'dhclient') touches
> the interface.  Interface is downed, root file system is gone, can't
> bring interface back up, game over.
> 
> I've got a fresh build of -current just installed for the netbooted
> Lemote YeeLoong.  Need to give it a whirl with "dhcp" in the
> "ifconfig.rtk0" file and see if the situation has changed.

Well, what do you know!  The YeeLoong successfully used 'dhcpcd' upon
netbooting.  And with "env force_hostname=YES", it gets an FQDN instead
of its short name (only).

And a SPARCstation 5 netbooting -8 has just done the same.  Looks like
a winner.

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