adding a host how-to

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:54:20AM -0400, Ilya Vishnyakov wrote:

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> Hello Freebsd Gurus!
> I set up the test server with Windows 2003 to play. Now I'm trying to
> add a hostname to our existing domain: newhostname.domain.com The
> server runs FreeBSD 6.2 with pf firewall.
> I added ip address and hostname to /etc/hosts Is there anything else
> that needs to be done besides that? Did anyone see a good how-to?

Who is doing DNS (name service) for your domain?
That entity will need to know about the new hostname.
If you are doing DNS for your domain, then you will have
to add it to your DNS server config.

////jerry

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