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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:54:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net>
To:        nk99 <nk99@microtec.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Assigning hostnames - additional information
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980728145313.669E-100000@bytor.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <000b01bdba4b$02ead5a0$a3aaa98e@default>

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read the book DNS & BIND published by O'Reilly and Associates

and no, there is not "an easier way" all you did was tell your ethernet
card to answer to that IP.

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Pat Lynch						lynch@rush.net
Systems Administrator					Rush Networking

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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, nk99 wrote:

> Hi,
>  
>     I've just setup a vhost on my box and I'd like to give it a hostname, but I don't know how to do that. I've been told it involves editing a lot of files like /etc/namedb and so forth, however I think there probably is an easier way to do it, seeing as how setting up the vhost only took one line:
> ifconfig ep0 inet 1.2.3.4 alias
>     Just in case it's helpful information, I have root access to a domain server (nameserver) which is Linux-run. I would appreciate any step-by-step information that you could give me. 
>  
> Thank you
> nk99@microtec.net
> 


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