Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 17:28:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Mitch Shaw <zeidaot@l1.conline.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD Mailing List'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: My FreeBSD host name and static IP question. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960422172748.28991F-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BB2E8A.D466EBE0@dal1-7.conline.com>
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On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, Mitch Shaw wrote: > Does anybody know a way or "hack" to keep your host name > if your host name is static but your ip is dynamic? When I join the irc > it always says dal1-??.conline.com instead of zeid.conline.com. Or when > I fire up netscape and point my browser to http://zeid.conline.com netscape > can't even find my computer when it's running on it. I have to point my browser > to my actual ip address or dal1-??.conline.com. Is this possible to do > with a dynamic ip? Thanks :) Try adding "zeid" and "zeid.conline.com" to the 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts. I haven't tried this, but just a thought. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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