Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:22:10 +2300 From: j.saito@wanadoo.fr To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: How do I determine "hostname" ? Message-ID: <199712161020.LAA25360@aralia.wanadoo.fr>
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I am a bit confused as to how I set up "hostname" on my PC. I only have a dial-up account. Is that my login name to the IP ? It seems, however, that it is not used to reach other sites but another one, which is apparently attributed dynamically as is my IP address. I tried to set up PPP following the PPP section of the handbook. I can reach my IP and pign it but when I ping other remote sites, I only get "Hostname lookup failure". What is wrong with the configuraiton ? The version of FreeBSD is 2.2.5. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. j.saito@wanadoo.fr (J. Saito)
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