Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 16:54:42 -0700 From: "Michael O'Henly" <michael@tenzo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What is the correct way to name my machine? Message-ID: <01050416544201.02354@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net>
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My internet access is provided via cable modem and DHCP. The result is a default machine name that looks like "h123-123-123-123.gv.shawcable.net" (those "123's" are actually my IP address). Two questions: 1. I'd like to change the default name to something else so that wherever the above is used now, the new name would be used instead. What do I update to make this change? 2. I'd like to create some aliases that may also be used to refer to the machine. Under Linux, I'd do this once in /etc/hosts and the aliases would become globally available. Is this true of FreeBSD as well? Thanks. M. -- Michael O'Henly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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