Naming confusion

[Jeremy Faulkner]

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Lloyd Hayes wrote:
| Here's a new thread.
| Naming the computer host?
|
| I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS
| assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different
| location. Yet FBSD seems to want a permanent assignment which I would
| normally get from my ISP. I don't have a permanent ISP. I mainly use 2
| services at locations all across the USA. Normally I simply assign a
| name to the computer, but it appears that FBSD wants a complete Internet
| address.
|
| This appears to me to be a conflict. I think that I read in "The
| Complete FreeBSD, 4th Edition" where there are some addresses to use if
| the computer will never be hooked into the Internet. But that is not the
| case here.
|
| Any ideas or help here?
|

It doesn't matter what name you give the machine. Just add that name to
/etc/hosts as the loop back address' lookup name. The only thing that
could go wrong is if you us a name that is the same as another computer
that you try to connect to. The system will resolve the name to be your
computer and will connect to itself instead of the remote machine.

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Jeremy Faulkner	<gldisater at gldis.ca>
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