Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:40:43 +0000 From: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> To: Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Setting hostname - fake and real Message-ID: <200503090840.44079.ben@spooty.net> In-Reply-To: <20050309171717.0F41.LUKEK@meibin.net> References: <200503090809.19374.ben@spooty.net> <20050309171717.0F41.LUKEK@meibin.net>
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On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: > Hello Ben > Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure I > understand why you would want to use fake dns names. I don't especially want to use a fake name, I just don't have a real one to use... the machine I'm talking about is my home machine with dynamic IP - I know there are ways round this, but it hardly seems worth registering a domain for this machine when it's off more than half the time anyway! > It won't really > work properly and if testing scripts that send mail is the goal then a > FQDN is probably a good idea. Do you control the DNS for your 'real' > domain? It's hosted commercially. In practice I might be able to get the tech people there to do me a favour, but then again I've got this dynamic IP > If so add your host potato and if possible get a reverse DNS > entry to match. > > For apache and X edit /etc/hosts and put the real information there and > your problems should go away. Thanks a lot, I'll give this a go. <thinks>/etc/hosts, of course, what a fool I am!</thinks> If it doesn't work then maybe I'll find myself going down the route of registering another domain! Thanks again, Ben
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