Your hostname is simply the name of your computer. As any user, type hostname at the shell prompt and it will return the name the computer thinks it is (the FreeBSD default is Amnesiac).
If, as root, you type "hostname" (without the quotation marks, of course), you make the hostname anything you like. If you want a new hostname to remain after reboot, you have to enter it into /etc/rc.conf For the Domain name, type in the static ip address that the DSL provider has assigned you. After you get up and running with network support, you can type: nslookup (the IP address you entered) and FreeBSD will return, usually*, the DNS equivalent of the IP address you entered. You can change the ip address Domain Name to the value that nslookup returns if you like, but its not really important to do. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT * I say "usually" because some ISP's don't have true DNS entries assigned to their distributed IP addresses. It's somewhat rare, but it happens. On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, John Daniels wrote: > I will be installing 4.7-RELEASE over ftp. I have a static DSL connection. > I have looked through all the relevent docs but I can not find the answer to > this: > > Network config part of Sysinstall asks for a Host name and Domain name. > But, I do not yet have a domain name, so... > > a) should I purchase one before I start the install? (if so > is this necessary or very convenient -> recommended?) > b) can I enter anything for Host name and Domain name and > change it later? (will this make my life very difficult?) > c) can you point me to any docs? > > Thanks in advance, > > John > > > (c) Copyright 2002 John Daniels. All rights reserved. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
