Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:58:07 -0800 From: "Evan Dower" <evantd@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: hostname and dhcp Message-ID: <BAY8-F104vdeD8i2Gqf0000f6da@hotmail.com>
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I've actually been running FreeBSD for quite a while now, but I've never known exactly how to handle this. In rc.conf, one must specify a hostname. If you're using DHCP to set up your network though, your FQDN (fully qualified domain name) can change without notice. It seems like a Good Idea to have your hostname be your FQDN, since some things will do a reverse lookup on your IP to verify that it matches the hostname you supplied. In particular I'm thinking of SMTP servers here. (send-pr doesn't work for me because my mail gets rejected.) So, when you're autoconfiguring your network interfaces, what should you put in rc.conf's hostname variable? Is there something else I can do that would allow me to have something nicer looking, but still send my FQDN when asked? Thanks very much, -- Evan Dower Undergraduate, Computer Science University of Washington Public key: http://students.washington.edu/evantd/pgp-pub-key.txt Key fingerprint = D321 FA24 4BDA F82D 53A9 5B27 7D15 5A4F 033F 887D _________________________________________________________________ Check out the great features of the new MSN 9 Dial-up, with the MSN Dial-up Accelerator. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/
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