Naming confusion

[Dick Davies]

* Lloyd Hayes <lloyd545220-trucker at yahoo.com> [1109 16:09]:
> 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.

No, it shouldn't do. But life does get a lot saner if you get a free
dynamic domain name from somewhere like dyndns.org and use ddclient from
ports to automatically update it when you change IP.

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