hostname on LAN with WAN

[Joey Mingrone]

Constantine,

I believe you can just add an entry to /etc/hosts to specify the hostname 
for your box.  Something like:

192.168.0.2             constantine constantine.domainname.com.

Just make sure your sytstem is searching the hosts file before DNS (in 
/etc/host.conf, hosts is above bind).

man hosts
man host.conf

Joey


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>Hello!
>
>I am using my FreeBSD 4.8 in a local network, I do not have any routable 
>IPs assigned to the box, so what am I supposed to use as a hostname for 
>that FreeBSD box?
>
>I have an internet connection (DSL modem with NAT), and I am using the 
>sendmail on the box, and the problem I have, is that during the boot time I 
>need to wait 2 minutes for the DNS-timeout.
>I wanted to ask, how the hostname is meant to be set in my case.
>
>Cheers,
>Constantine.
>
>maillog:
>Aug  1 14:52:57 cnst sm-msp-queue[101]: My unqualified host name (cnst) 
>unknown; sleeping for retry
>Aug  1 14:53:57 cnst sm-msp-queue[101]: unable to qualify my own domain 
>name (cnst) -- using short name
>Aug  1 14:53:57 cnst sm-msp-queue[103]: starting daemon (8.12.8p1): 
>queueing at 00:30:00
>Aug  2 14:41:22 cnst sm-mta[99]: My unqualified host name (cnst) unknown; 
>sleeping for retry
>Aug  2 14:42:22 cnst sm-mta[99]: unable to qualify my own domain name 
>(cnst) -- using short name
>Aug  2 14:42:22 cnst sm-mta[100]: starting daemon (8.12.8p1): 
>SMTP+queueing at 00:30:00
>
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