Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 11:12:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ronald Klop <ronald@cs.vu.nl> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Name Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9905191053560.24735-100000@kits.cs.vu.nl> In-Reply-To: <19990519092757.I89091@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 19 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 19 May 1999 at 0:12:29 +0200, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > > Hi. > > During installation, I was asked for a name of my domain (or the name of the > > machine?). > > The default was something like domain.mydomain.my***. > > Of course I put in something else. > > But when I now have managed (with some help of You) to > > get FBSD and X to work, my machine is still called > > mydomain.etc.etc. And I have searched a lot for how to change this, but... > > > > My question is: > > How can I change this? In wich file(s) is this? > > People have told you how to change it. I haven't seen anybody explain > what it means: this domain name is visible world-wide, and it needs to > be registered. If you don't have a domain name, leave it empty. > > To get a domain name, look at http://www.networksolutions.com/ and try > to guess what their stupid terminology really means. > > Greg I can't agree on this. The name you put there is not used outside of your computer. But if your computer is registered in a domainname server then it's handy to make your hostname equal to the name your computer has on the internet. The only example I can come up with about your domainname being visible world-wide is an emailprogram which puts your domainname after the '@', but it's allways very easy to override this. Greetings, Ronald. -- Ronald Klop Vrije Universiteit http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ronald/ +31 (0)20 (44)47709 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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