Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:57:08 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Message-ID: <200001280157.UAA21728@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <46146.949017991@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <20000127144207.A81615@dragon.nuxi.com> <46146.949017991@zippy.cdrom.com>
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<<On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:06:31 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> said: > citizen" these days without a resolvable hostname that also matches > your primary IP address or, among other things, you won't be able to > send mail directly to anyone who practices traditional spam filtering > techniques. However, there is no need to actually use the configured hostname for this purpose. `temp-4224.lcs.mit.edu' is just that, temporary -- I want my machine to know what its *real* identity is. From my perspective, when I'm installing a FreeBSD machine, the DHCP client option serves only to quick-start the installation -- the machine will eventually have a real address. It would be useful to me if sysinstall paid attention to the hostname I specified > the hostname will currently cause it to override the DHCP hostname > value even if it is specified (as it certainly is on *my* DHCP server :-) > and result in broken behavior for the aformentioned mailers. You have your mail server set to ``authenticate'' based on the HELO? That's the only thing in the SMTP protocol that the kernel's hostname setting has any impact on. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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