diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 293695d..10e9989 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -52,12 +52,12 @@ Refer to [jail(8)](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8) for
 
 Next add the following lines to your `/etc/rc.conf`:
 ```
-ifconfig_em0_alias0="inet 144.76.67.168/32"
+ifconfig_em0_alias0="inet 172.16.1.1/32"
 jail_enable="YES"
 ```
 
 You may need to replace the interface name `em0` with the one in use on your system.
-
+You might need to restart the interface to apply the alias: `/etc/rc.d/netif restart`.
 
 ### Create the jail
 ```
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ fcgiwrap is running as pid 37682.
 
 ### Login into the running jail for administration
 ```
-# jaildk jlogin myjail
+# jaildk login myjail
 ```
 
 You can use this to login into a database or execute commands inside the jail.
diff --git a/jaildk b/jaildk
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index b4cf273..ac98e0e
--- a/jaildk
+++ b/jaildk
@@ -751,6 +751,7 @@ jaildk_clone() {
         echo
     else
         . $j/etc/$src/jail.conf
+        jail=$new
         bold "To mount the build chroot of the new jail, execute:"
         echo "jaildk build $new start $base $newversion"
     fi
@@ -763,6 +764,9 @@ Create a new jail from template."
 
 jaildk_create() {
     jail=$1
+    # $jail gets overwritten in jaildk_clone or some subcall to .template :-( ...
+    newjail=$jail
+    
     src=.template
     
     if test -z "$jail"; then
@@ -774,8 +778,13 @@ jaildk_create() {
     newversion=`date +%Y%m%d`
 
     mkdir -p $j/etc/$jail
-
+    
     jaildk_clone -s $src -d $jail -o $srcversion -n $newversion
+    # some perl magic to extract the hostname (if any) from /etc/jail.conf - and write it into the jails rc.conf
+    jailhostname=$(cat /etc/jail.conf | tr -d '\t\r\n ' | perl -ne '$_ =~ /.*'"$newjail"'(\{(?:\{.*\}|[^{])*\})|\w+/; print $1;' | grep -oE 'hostname=[^;]+' | cut -d= -f2)
+    [ -n "$jailhostname" ] && sed -iE 's/^hostname.*$/hostname="'"$jailhostname"'"/' $j/etc/$newjail/local-etc-$newversion/rc.conf
+    
+    
 }
 
 remove() {