RE: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-10 Thread Ben Paley
-Original Message- From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setting hostname - fake and real To: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am

Re: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Hodgins
Ben Paley wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setting hostname - fake and real To: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here

Re: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-10 Thread Ben Paley
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:03, Chris Hodgins wrote: You can simply use 127.0.0.1 in there. 127.0.0.1 localhost my-xp-machine.org I'll give that a go next! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-09 Thread Luke Kearney
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:09:19 + Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hello, Is there an easy way to set a fake hostname in rc.conf which will let sendmail send mail to external domains? For ages I've had the line in rc.conf hostname=potato.fake_domain.net (not exactly, but

Re: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-09 Thread Ben Paley
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure I understand why you would want to use fake dns names. I don't especially want to use a fake name, I just don't have a real one to use... the machine I'm

RE: Setting hostname - fake and real

2005-03-09 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Paley Sent: woensdag 9 maart 2005 9:41 To: Luke Kearney Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Setting hostname - fake and real On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello