Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:21:46 +0000 From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> To: Lloyd Hayes <lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Naming confusion Message-ID: <20041105142146.GA1091@lb.tenfour> In-Reply-To: <418A53E5.40404@yahoo.com> References: <418A53E5.40404@yahoo.com>
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* Lloyd Hayes <lloyd545220-trucker@yahoo.com> [1109 16:09]: > Here's a new thread. > Naming the computer host? > > I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS > assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different > location. Yet FBSD seems to want a permanent assignment which I would > normally get from my ISP. I don't have a permanent ISP. I mainly use 2 > services at locations all across the USA. Normally I simply assign a > name to the computer, but it appears that FBSD wants a complete Internet > address. No, it shouldn't do. But life does get a lot saner if you get a free dynamic domain name from somewhere like dyndns.org and use ddclient from ports to automatically update it when you change IP. -- Oh how awful. Did he at least die peacefully? ....To shreds you say, tsk tsk tsk. Well, how's his wife holding up? ....To shreds, you say... - Prof. Farnsworth Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns
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