From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 4 23:45:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE5B16A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 23:45:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [66.11.169.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4280C43D41 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 23:45:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iA4NiQkp043316; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:44:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Message-ID: <418ABF1A.7070405@gldis.ca> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:45:30 -0500 From: Jeremy Faulkner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041102) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lloyd Hayes References: <418A53E5.40404@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <418A53E5.40404@yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80rc4/561/Fri Oct 29 06:26:00 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on constans.gldis.ca X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: dave cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Naming confusion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 23:45:38 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Lloyd Hayes wrote: | Here's a new thread. | Naming the computer host? | | I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS | assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different | location. Yet FBSD seems to want a permanent assignment which I would | normally get from my ISP. I don't have a permanent ISP. I mainly use 2 | services at locations all across the USA. Normally I simply assign a | name to the computer, but it appears that FBSD wants a complete Internet | address. | | This appears to me to be a conflict. I think that I read in "The | Complete FreeBSD, 4th Edition" where there are some addresses to use if | the computer will never be hooked into the Internet. But that is not the | case here. | | Any ideas or help here? | It doesn't matter what name you give the machine. Just add that name to /etc/hosts as the loop back address' lookup name. The only thing that could go wrong is if you us a name that is the same as another computer that you try to connect to. The system will resolve the name to be your computer and will connect to itself instead of the remote machine. - -- Jeremy Faulkner -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBir8Zfb0Lle2MIEIRAh03AJsE1297tvKCWMKluvPTVht79h4FQgCeIn3y dudmmQEcDvvO8KmPsGSfT4A= =NMgA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----