Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

[Andrew Reilly]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 06:53:51PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> Since the hostname is simply a plain-text token for the IP address, it 
> has to remain bound to the IP address (whether that binding is fixed or 
> dynamic is outside the scope of this discussion).  Having a hostname that 
> doesn't map to your IP address is a misconfiguration, and not a useful 
> one at that.

My system has two ethernet cards, and two IP addresses.  One of
these is assigned by DHCP and the other is fixed, on my local
network.  I prefer for my hostname to relate to the local address.

Just another data point.

-- 
Andrew


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