Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:34:31 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net> To: "Ariel Burbaickij" <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Changing the name of the machine Message-ID: <200007160223.WAA72690@vulcan.addy.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10007111324440.2858-100000@sun33>
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:35:08 +0200 (MET DST), Ariel Burbaickij wrote: >yourname.dyndns.org.Yet the question:may i just change the name >of the machine simply just out of blue due to changed circumstances >and if yes what steps are necessary ? You don't have to change the name of your machine. For your reference if you wanted to change the name you change it in /etc/rc.conf. The reason you don't have to change the name is that the name you give it is not known to the outside world, therefore not a problem. DynDNS provides you an entry which will point yourname.dyndns.com to your machine regardles off how you name your machine. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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