From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 14:44:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.sourcee.com (falcon.sourcee.com [12.11.130.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D245B37B4D7 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:44:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from fremont.sourcee.com (56-135.sourcee.com [12.7.135.56] (may be forged)) by falcon.sourcee.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA12011 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:44:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A14639D.ECFEADA4@fremont.sourcee.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:45:49 -0800 From: Chimon Yeung X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hostname/IP--How to Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, How do I make my hostname (ex: seal.fans.com) bind with the IP address so when I ping, ftp, or telnet to that UNIX box, I can type in the hostname instead of the IP address? -- Thanks, Chimon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message