Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 17:21:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Name Message-ID: <19990522172113.B69879@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37428426.7DB72458@ettnet.se>; from Thomas Widlundh on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 11:28:06AM %2B0200 References: <99051900195703.00944@tw.oden.se> <19990519092757.I89091@freebie.lemis.com> <37428426.7DB72458@ettnet.se>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 19 May 1999 at 11:28:06 +0200, Thomas Widlundh 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... > > Greg Lehey wrote: >> 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. > > First I am to Thank every of You who gave me an answer. > Now Greg, I'm not shure what You are talking about. Do You mean a > name in the Internet like the name of my ISP, ettnet.se? Yes. That's the purpose of this name. > I mean the name which comes up during boot, just before the login > prompt. I'm to login to a machine with the name mydomain.my.etc. Correct. It's a domain name. It has no other meaning. > Erlier I had Caldera Base 1.1 on my HD. During installation I got > this question where I could change the name my.mydomain.etc to what > I wanted. I didn't know and understand it at the time so I typed > tw. The result was a very slow boot. The machine stopped at sendmail > for a long while and then continued. I was told that that was > because sendmail tried to find this name and wasn't pleased with my > tiny "tw". That's the top-level domain name for Taiwan :-) > It wanted a long name like this my.mydomain.etc with these two > periods. No, the reason is that it was trying to resolve the name. > Sendmail continued the boot after a time out. I changed the name to > a longer one, end sendmail was pleased and booted up fast. Well, what that means depends on what kind of name resolution you chose. I'm not really sure why you're running sendmail on a standalone machine. > In BSD i changed the name somewhere, can't recall where, and > sendmail is stopping like in Linux. Then, after a minute or so, > sendmail seems to time out and continue. That's right. It's the DNS lookup that times out. You're really looking in the wrong place here. If you don't want to run sendmail, you can disable it in /etc/rc.conf. If you are connecting to the net, you must get a valid name. sendmail uses it to determine things like return addresses, etc. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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