From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 24 20:14:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.cybersurf.net (smtp1.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B0337B423 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 20:14:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from 3web.net ([209.115.233.63]) by smtp1.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDVFNH00.28O for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 21:14:05 -0600 Received: by 3web.net (EzMTS MTSAgent 1.22b Service) ; Thu, 24 May 01 21:13:30 -0600 for Received: from 3web.net (10.0.0.2) by 3web.net (EzMTS MTSSmtp 1.50 Service) ; Thu, 24 May 01 21:07:38 -0600 for Received: by mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 24 May 2001 21:07:34 +4200 Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 21:07:31 -0600 From: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> To: Bill Moran Cc: Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: DNS Message-ID: <20010524210731.B97963@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Moran , Freebsd Questions References: <20010524141942.A121223@mandy.rockingd.calgary.ab.ca> <3B0D8115.3083BC7A@iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B0D8115.3083BC7A@iowna.com>; from "Bill Moran" on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:45:57PM X-Envelope-Receiver: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:45:57PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Duke Normandin wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:28:16AM -0700, Linh Pham wrote: > > > On 2001-05-24, Lee Mark Mercado scribbled: > > > > > > # I was wondering how i could make my myowndomain.com to show up as my host > > > # address instead of what my ISP gave me (myISPdomain.com) ? > > > > > > What you need to do is contact your ISP and ask them if they can change > > > the reverse DNS lookups for your IP addresses to > > > whatever.myowndomain.com > > > > > > -- > > > Linh Pham > > > > If a person is assigned a Dyn.IP -- is this still possible? My gut > > feeling says -- nyet ;) > > Not really practical, and I doubt your ISP would comply. If you're only > worried about the local machine thinking it is myowndomain.com you can > set the hostname and entries in /etc/hosts and it will take care of > that. Other machines doing reverse DNS will still see myISPdomain.com > though. > > -Bill Thanks! That's exactly what I thought --- and do. Later... -- -duke Calgary, Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message