On Friday 09 February 2001 01:54 pm, you wrote:
> OK, I am tired of my computers being each named localhost.localdomain
> with the alias of localhost.
Changing the hostname can occur in several different places. More likely
than not, you want to change/add the following lines to
/etc/sysconfig/network:
HOSTNAME="whatever.you.want"
DOMAINNAME="you.want"
> Is there some special rules to follow in renaming one's computer? Can
> one who has a dynamic ip name their computer in such a way to be
> friendly with the appropriate network?
Only if you are going to want to use that hostname to access the machine
from the Internet. The ISP I use recommends using their domain name as
the domain name for home boxes. Some don't. For the most part, if you
don't need to route to that box via name, therefore needing a DNS record
for it, I say name it whatever you like. I had a development network that
used .not as its toplevel domain. Obviously that isn't a real TLD. The
internal records for that domain were all consistent, and there was no
need to route anything to these boxes external by anything other than IP
address. Other networking professionals may have differing views (like
some I know who will not, under any circumstances subnet a 10.0.0.0
private network as a Class C, and say thats what 192.168.0.0 is for).
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