Actually, youve got my setup cofused with Erik's :) I have tried setting
hostname to both cx57652-a and to the FQDN. no change, unfortunately. Also,
at least in my case, it's not a matter of certain services not working.
Everything essentialy works, just very, very slowly.

At 7:31 PM -0800 3/18/2000, Kadari Mayson wrote:
>Hi Mat, I noticed in your host-name, you have cs495859-a entered.  I
>struggled with this entry when I first tried to get @home working with my
>NetBSD box.  When I would try to start some services like apache or tin, I
>would get a could not find FQDN error.  This was solved by entering in my
>entire dns.  Bingo, everything worked.
>

>> which still doesn't explain why my setup, which has a static IP, is so
>> slow. I'm waiting for the Networking howto to load and go through /etc and
>> make sure I've got everything set up right, didn't miss anything, etc.
>>
>> At 8:30 AM -0800 3/18/2000, Erik Huizing wrote:
>> > Success! I've got my NetBSD Centris hooked up and running at decent
>> >speeds now. Downloaded some packages from ftp.netbsd.org at
>> 75-150k/sec so
>> >I'm happy. My machine isn't setup to do ipf/NAT yet, but this is an
>> >encouraging first step.
>> >
>> >The only thing different that I've done is started with a fresh
>> >installation of etc.tgz, then added some stuff to dhclient.conf:
>> >script "/etc/dhclient-script";
>> >
>> >interface "ae0" {
>> >  send host-name "cs495859-a";
>> >}
>> >
>> >and rc.conf:
>> >dhclient=YES
>> >dhclient_flags="ae0"
>> >
>> >and everything is working fine now. What really stumps me is
>> that the only
>> >real difference (aside from ipf/ipnat being off) is the dhclient script
>> >doesn't have an alias section.
>> >

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