Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
At 07:19 PM 8/29/2007, Peter Pluta wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:05:06 Peter Pluta wrote: I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http, smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when I first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly appreciated. Thanks! its fairly simple actually. example: my system's name is athena. my domain, is dfwlp.com... thus my computer is athena.dfwlp.com. the hostname command can show you waht your current hostname is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ hostname athena.dfwlp.com also, there is a line in /etc/rc.conf that specifys the system's hostname when you start up: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ cat /etc/rc.conf|grep hostname hostname=athena.dfwlp.com finally, when you are installing freebsd, during the network configuration page, the Host: box would be where i would put athena, and the Domain: box would be where i put dfwlp.com (when you set your domain, you dont put the . in front of the domain name, ie, dont put .dfwlp.com in the domain box). cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right, my current box is mail.placidpublishing.com, I only have 1 box, and it does web and mail. I just picked placidpublishing and used that since it was a domain I had laying arond. Is that ok? How does one pick a domain? Just any old domain? I keep visualizing a domain as in 3-4 servers each of which has a hostname mail, web, etc.. Pick a domain you own, or buy a new one. They is why there are so many domain possibilities these days, like .info, .biz, etc. in addition to the regular .com, .net, .org -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for your LAN? --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pick a domain you own, or buy a new one. They is why there are so many domain possibilities these days, like .info, .biz, etc. in addition to the regular .com, .net, .org Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for your LAN? Sure does, no reason not to. The only issue may be having unique machine names, but that shouldn't really be too tough. -Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
--- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for your LAN? Sure does, no reason not to. The only issue may be having unique machine names, but that shouldn't really be too tough. Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN the same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail server and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are mail.domainname.com and ftp.domainname.com, so I guess I would not want to use these. Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:19:58 Peter Pluta wrote: How does one pick a domain? Just any old domain? thats often how it goes! mine was originally dfwlanparty... but dfwlp just became the shortend version of what the community referred to it as. i bought the domain just out of convenience many moons ago :) I keep visualizing a domain as in 3-4 servers each of which has a hostname mail, web, etc.. fairly close, some times you will actually find servers that actually are named web mail, or have names after services. myself, i have names that ive chosen, and then use DNS to link the common services to them. example, if you do a: host castor.dfwlp.com youll find that castor is my server that handles www.dfwlp.com. so, if you have a specific name in mind, dont be afraid to use it! you can always go back later and use DNS to give your box as many jobs as you need (ie, you can DNS both www and mail to the same server, if you need to). cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah ok. I host a few domains on my box, 3 web, and 1 mail. I will just call my box box(anything).placidpublishing.net and just have dns entries for mail, www, etc.. to the appropriate domains. That makes more sense. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-Hostname-Question---Whats-The-Proper-Way-tf4351213.html#a12418257 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for your LAN? Sure does, no reason not to. The only issue may be having unique machine names, but that shouldn't really be too tough. Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN the same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail server and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are mail.domainname.com and ftp.domainname.com, so I guess I would not want to use these. Correct, only use host names that are unique. Most use some names that help identify the machine by the dept, user, etc. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
At 07:55 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for your LAN? Sure does, no reason not to. The only issue may be having unique machine names, but that shouldn't really be too tough. Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN the same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail server and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are mail.domainname.com and ftp.domainname.com, so I guess I would not want to use these. Correct, only use host names that are unique. Most use some names that help identify the machine by the dept, user, etc. Thanks for clearing that up, Derek. It's hard to know something until you actually _know_ it! :-) It gets easier with experience. Doesn't hurt if you do some DNS setups too. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
--- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for your LAN? Sure does, no reason not to. The only issue may be having unique machine names, but that shouldn't really be too tough. Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN the same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail server and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are mail.domainname.com and ftp.domainname.com, so I guess I would not want to use these. Correct, only use host names that are unique. Most use some names that help identify the machine by the dept, user, etc. Thanks for clearing that up, Derek. It's hard to know something until you actually _know_ it! :-) Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:29 PM, L Goodwin wrote: Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN the same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail server and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are mail.domainname.com and ftp.domainname.com, so I guess I would not want to use these. I have a minimum of three names for any machine visible to the outside world. (1) I have the internal name that I give a box. A few years ago, I asked my daughter for help naming machines, and we ended up with a Harry Potter theme. So my primary external server (which has the most names) is dobby.ewd.goldmark.org, but that name isn't visible to the world. It's not secret, but I have no intention of having anything out side my local network needed to refer to it that way. (And in the Harry Potter scheme, my three headed firewall is named fluffy.) (2) But there is another name it must also have. I have a tiny block of IP addresses which all had PTR records associated with them like static-72-64-118-118.dllstx.fios.verizon.net. It took more than two hours on the phone to Verizon to get those changed, so it was something I only ever wanted to do once, so I have names like n114.ewd.goldmark.org n115.ewd.goldmark.org and so on. So dobby is also known of as n118.ewd.goldmark.org (3) Now dobby runs a couple of public servers. It runs Apache as www.goldmark.org and about half a dozen vhosts. It also also runs a mailserver (postfix) with mailman primarily visible under the name lists.shepard-families.org. So recapping. One is my quasi-private name for the box itself. And that is what hostname knows. Two is a name corresponding the the reverse lookup of any public IP address it might have. There may be several of these if the machine had multiple IP addresses. And three are role names for all of the services it runs. This way, if I want to move a service to a different host, that is relatively easy. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
--- Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:29 PM, L Goodwin wrote: Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN the same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail server and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are mail.domainname.com and ftp.domainname.com, so I guess I would not want to use these. I have a minimum of three names for any machine visible to the outside world. (1) I have the internal name that I give a box. A few years ago, I asked my daughter for help naming machines, and we ended up with a Harry Potter theme. So my primary external server (which has the most names) is dobby.ewd.goldmark.org, but that name isn't visible to the world. It's not secret, but I have no intention of having anything out side my local network needed to refer to it that way. (And in the Harry Potter scheme, my three headed firewall is named fluffy.) (2) But there is another name it must also have. I have a tiny block of IP addresses which all had PTR records associated with them like static-72-64-118-118.dllstx.fios.verizon.net. It took more than two hours on the phone to Verizon to get those changed, so it was something I only ever wanted to do once, so I have names like n114.ewd.goldmark.org n115.ewd.goldmark.org and so on. So dobby is also known of as n118.ewd.goldmark.org (3) Now dobby runs a couple of public servers. It runs Apache as www.goldmark.org and about half a dozen vhosts. It also also runs a mailserver (postfix) with mailman primarily visible under the name lists.shepard-families.org. So recapping. One is my quasi-private name for the box itself. And that is what hostname knows. Two is a name corresponding the the reverse lookup of any public IP address it might have. There may be several of these if the machine had multiple IP addresses. And three are role names for all of the services it runs. This way, if I want to move a service to a different host, that is relatively easy. Thanks, Jeff! Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http, smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when I first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-Hostname-Question---Whats-The-Proper-Way-tf4351213.html#a12398274 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
At 07:05 PM 8/29/2007, Peter Pluta wrote: I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http, smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when I first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly appreciated. Thanks! I always give my servers a hostname and IP for the base system. If I add a website, I will add another IP (or use apache's virtual hosting on the same IP) and add another DNS entry for the system. You can have more than one name for an IP and for a server. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:05:06 Peter Pluta wrote: I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http, smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when I first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly appreciated. Thanks! its fairly simple actually. example: my system's name is athena. my domain, is dfwlp.com... thus my computer is athena.dfwlp.com. the hostname command can show you waht your current hostname is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ hostname athena.dfwlp.com also, there is a line in /etc/rc.conf that specifys the system's hostname when you start up: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ cat /etc/rc.conf|grep hostname hostname=athena.dfwlp.com finally, when you are installing freebsd, during the network configuration page, the Host: box would be where i would put athena, and the Domain: box would be where i put dfwlp.com (when you set your domain, you dont put the . in front of the domain name, ie, dont put .dfwlp.com in the domain box). cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:05:06 Peter Pluta wrote: I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http, smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when I first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly appreciated. Thanks! its fairly simple actually. example: my system's name is athena. my domain, is dfwlp.com... thus my computer is athena.dfwlp.com. the hostname command can show you waht your current hostname is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ hostname athena.dfwlp.com also, there is a line in /etc/rc.conf that specifys the system's hostname when you start up: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ cat /etc/rc.conf|grep hostname hostname=athena.dfwlp.com finally, when you are installing freebsd, during the network configuration page, the Host: box would be where i would put athena, and the Domain: box would be where i put dfwlp.com (when you set your domain, you dont put the . in front of the domain name, ie, dont put .dfwlp.com in the domain box). cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right, my current box is mail.placidpublishing.com, I only have 1 box, and it does web and mail. I just picked placidpublishing and used that since it was a domain I had laying arond. Is that ok? How does one pick a domain? Just any old domain? I keep visualizing a domain as in 3-4 servers each of which has a hostname mail, web, etc.. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-Hostname-Question---Whats-The-Proper-Way-tf4351213.html#a12398404 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:19:58 Peter Pluta wrote: How does one pick a domain? Just any old domain? thats often how it goes! mine was originally dfwlanparty... but dfwlp just became the shortend version of what the community referred to it as. i bought the domain just out of convenience many moons ago :) I keep visualizing a domain as in 3-4 servers each of which has a hostname mail, web, etc.. fairly close, some times you will actually find servers that actually are named web mail, or have names after services. myself, i have names that ive chosen, and then use DNS to link the common services to them. example, if you do a: host castor.dfwlp.com youll find that castor is my server that handles www.dfwlp.com. so, if you have a specific name in mind, dont be afraid to use it! you can always go back later and use DNS to give your box as many jobs as you need (ie, you can DNS both www and mail to the same server, if you need to). cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hostname Question
Is there any differnce in the way 6.0 resolves its own hostname compared to 5.2 ? I just noticed in phpsysinfo the hostname is being outputted as the IP address ? # hostname does in fact show the correct hostname.domain name of the machine. I have tried the same version of phpsysinfo (as I had on 5.2) as well as the most recent port and the result is the same. I checked rc.conf which is correct. Its not of great importance but I just was wondering about it ... Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: hostname question
Assigning an Host name to your FBSD system. Your FBSD operating system has internal software applications (like sendmail for one) that needs to know the fully qualified domain name of the PC it's running on. You do this by adding this option statement hostname=to /etc/rc.conf. This is the format to use. thisPCname.fakeDOMAINname.tld Where thisPCname came be any name you want to identify this particular pc on your LAN. Since the goal is to build an FBSD gateway server, the name of this PC should be gateway. Where .fakeDOMAINname can be any name you want as long as it's not an registered domain name on the public internet unless it's registered to you. Using FBSDyourlastname is an safe fake domain name to use here. So if my name is Tom Jones, I would use fbsdjones. Where .tld can be any of the standard TLD's currently in use. Such as .com or .usa or .info or .cc, but since .com is the most commonly used TLD, I recommend using .com Gateway.fbsdjones.com is an very acceptable fake host name to use. 1. ee /ect/rc.conf edit file 2. add this option statement to file hostname=Gateway.fbsdjones.com 3. save your changed file 4. reboot When the reboot stops at the login prompt, the line displayed just above it will now contain your host name you just added to rc.conf. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bryan Cassidy Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 7:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: hostname question -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I got a quick question (just one for this minute). I was told I should add a hostname. (my domain name maybe? bsdjunky.dyndns.org? Will that do?) He said I should put an entry in /etc/hosts that maps the IP of your box to the hostname you gave it. Then put that hostname into main.cf. How would I go about adding a hostname to /etc/hosts that maps the IP of my box? I use DHCP if that matters. Never added anything to /etc/hosts before so don't know the syntax or anything about what I should add. Just add simply on the first line without any whitespaces bsdjunky.homeunix.org or something else? Thanks, Bryan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/w/jL3TDgpNGRSLARAhtSAJ0cPwzWA+vVNKJaeCAF0B+B0+xTXACgwFC2 dZI7IPZ01EuGONY/kqOp+dI= =H4Wk -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hostname question
Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was told I should add a hostname. (my domain name maybe? bsdjunky.dyndns.org? Will that do?) So far, this could mean several things. hostname(1) should have a reasonable idea of the host's name, if possible. He said I should put an entry in /etc/hosts that maps the IP of your box to the hostname you gave it. There's not necessarily any need for this. DNS should resolve it properly, if a bit slower. Some applications will require a reverse mapping (cvsup comes to mind), but if the real DNS is correct, you don't need hosts to do that. Then put that hostname into main.cf. There's no standard file by that name. Maybe you're configuring postfix? In that case it's a postfix question, but again, editing hosts is usually only necessary if there's a DNS mapping missing. How would I go about adding a hostname to /etc/hosts that maps the IP of my box? I use DHCP if that matters. Putting your hostname on the loopback address (127.0.0.1) is usually a good idea. Never added anything to /etc/hosts before so don't know the syntax or anything about what I should add. man 5 hosts or read what's already in the file. Just add simply on the first line without any whitespaces bsdjunky.homeunix.org or something else? An IP address, whitespace, and one or more DNS names. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hostname question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I got a quick question (just one for this minute). I was told I should add a hostname. (my domain name maybe? bsdjunky.dyndns.org? Will that do?) He said I should put an entry in /etc/hosts that maps the IP of your box to the hostname you gave it. Then put that hostname into main.cf. How would I go about adding a hostname to /etc/hosts that maps the IP of my box? I use DHCP if that matters. Never added anything to /etc/hosts before so don't know the syntax or anything about what I should add. Just add simply on the first line without any whitespaces bsdjunky.homeunix.org or something else? Thanks, Bryan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/w/jL3TDgpNGRSLARAhtSAJ0cPwzWA+vVNKJaeCAF0B+B0+xTXACgwFC2 dZI7IPZ01EuGONY/kqOp+dI= =H4Wk -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
