Naming confusion

[Lloyd Hayes]

 >It doesn't matter what name you give the machine. Just add that name 
to /etc/hosts as the loop back address' lookup name.

I refer to this computer as "traveler2". It is the 2nd laptop that I had 
purchased. Everything before had been desktops. I have traveler2 and 
traveler4 in the truck with me.  OK, lets  say that I call it 
"traveler2.hayes.org". Where will I get into trouble with this?

Also, in reading about DHCP, I think that I read something about a 
caution concerning naming of the computer. Something about the computer 
should not have been named before. Is this correct?

Can I just insert a name into the /etc/rc.conf file? Or do I need to go 
through the 'Name' procedure?

It seems that I can't setup the DHCP, ddclients, until I get a wifi card 
that FBSD recognizes. All of my Internet access is through WiFi 
connections....

Also, In the /etc/hosts file, I understand the 27.0.0.0, but what is 
this ::1 address?

Lloyd Hayes

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Jeremy Faulkner wrote:

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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.
>
> - --
> Jeremy Faulkner    <gldisater at gldis.ca>
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