From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 11 4:33:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C548337BE3C for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 04:33:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:34:21 +0200 Received: from sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.133] helo=sun33) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 13ByGE-0007wV-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:31:34 +0200 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:35:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun33 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Changing the name of the machine Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Situation is divided in two parts: former and now Former: I was not connencted to internet constantly but rather sporadically.I have choosen the name of my machine deliberately and it is rulez.zhestianka.de(horrible mix of 2 languages and geographic location)Method used for connection was dialup paid on time basis. Now: I changed to 24/7 based flatrate with the SAME machine,one of the main disadvantages of flatrate as compared to leased is that one does not get static IP but rather dynamic one(one is kicked off after 24 hours of constant connect and must dial-in again rather cripled thing but so are circumstances here in germany) Guys from dyndns.org try to come up to this short-comming by mapping dynamic IP to static DNS entry but they demand (or i have understood it so) just names of the form: 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 ? Best wishes, Ariel To boldly go where I surely don't belong. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message