setting host name during install?

[Peter Michaux]

Hi,

Thanks for the info. I reversed what I had done and then used
sysinstall. Going through sysinstall let me enter
"beastie.gv.shawcable.net" as my host name. However when I try the
following two url's i get and unknown host.

http://beastie:3000/
http://beastie.gv.shawcable.net:3000/

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Peter


On 5/20/06, SM X <smx624 at gmail.com> wrote:
> For changing hostname (and/or IP), I found that the best way is to use
> sysinstall and change it from there (Configure --> Networking -->
> Interfaces --> "your NIC"), since that one will change not only
> rc.conf file, but also the hosts file (so that your browser can
> actually resolve name beastie in the http request), and potentially
> resolv.conf (where your name server entries (not in your case, since
> you are on DHCP, therefore you get the DNS server entries
> automatically) are stored.
>
> Obviously, the remedy in your case is to manually edit the hosts file
> and assign the appropriate values there.
>
> Or you can always just use http://localhost:3000 and that should work.
> Hope this helps,
> smx
>
> P.S. I would not consider myself an expert, so , if I made any
> mistakes above, hopefully others will alert us all about those. What I
> can tell you is that I did try the procedure above several times and
> it was working for me.
>
> On 5/20/06, Peter Michaux <petermichaux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > During install, I don't quite understand the "host" parameter that I
> > supplied for my networking configuration.
> >
> > I used DHPC and most of the parameters were filled in for me
> >
> > Host:
> > Domain: gv.shawcable.net
> > IPv4 Gateway: 192.168.0.1
> > Name server: 192.168.0.1
> > IPv4 Address: 192.168.0.103
> > Netmask: 255.255.255.0
> > Extra options to ifconfig (usually empty):
> >
> > When I pressed tab in the Host box it automatically filled in with
> > ".gv.shawcable.net" which make sense since I have a cable modem from
> > Shaw in Greater Victoria. But it seems like something should have gone
> > before the first dot. Is there an opportunity here to give my computer
> > a cool name like "beastie" so I can type things like
> > "http://beastie:3000" instead of "http://192.168.0.103:3000" ? Or is
> > this host name supposed to be some server at my ISP?
> >
> > I changed the hostname using the following steps but I don't know what
> > I really gained.
> >
> > 1. vi /etc/rc.conf
> > 2. change
> >      hostname=".gv.shawcable.net"
> >    to
> >      hostname="beastie"
> > 3. restart computer so change becomes reality.
> > 4. now the command prompt says root at beastie
> >
> > When I tried "http://beastie:3000" I ended up at the Beastie Boys
> > website. Not the worst suprise but not what I was hoping for.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
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