Host name question

[Bill Schmitt (SW)]

   Donald J. O'Neill wrote:

On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:18 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote:
  

Alexey Karguine wrote:
    

Bill Schmitt wrote:
      

  Well, every other computer on the network is listed as an
"attached device" except the FBSD box. And, when I've booted
Knoppix in the past, it showed up, too.
        

What are the operating systems of the other computers? Is this your 
own personal lan? I use a Linksys router, the only things that show 
up are ip's that it has supplied dynamically. If a box is using a 
static ip, it wont show up on the router. If it's a FBSD box, just 
the ip shows up, if it's a Win box, the ip and copmuter name will 
show up. I don't think you have to worry about that.

  

  Also, when I start Apache (2.0) I receive a message "Could
not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using
127.0.0.1 for ServerName.
  Ruben de Groot wrote:
        

I don't remember exactly, it's been a while since I've had Apache 
install and operating, but I seem to remember having to go into the 
Apache config file and putting in the the name and ip address. 
Someone else can probably tell you better than I can.

  

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:09:49AM -0400, Bill Schmitt (SW)
typed:


I know I've seen the answer to this question somewhere here,
but I can't seem to find it. I'm running FBSD 4.9 on a machine
which is connected to a router (Netgear) that provides DHCP
services. The FBSD box gets the IP correctly (assigned based
on the MAC address), but the router never sees it by name. I
have the name of the machine in the hosts file and rc.conf,
but the router never gets the name back. Can anyone help?

What makes you think the router *should* get the name back?
        

Please, show contents of /etc/resolv.conf file on your machine.
      

Two lines in resolv.conf:

search albyny.adelphia.net
nameserver 192.168.0.1
    

You've got 192.168.0.1 listed as a nameserver. Can't be. That's the 
ip address of your Netgear router, it acts as a DHCP server not as 
a DNS server. What is albyny.adelphia.net? Is that your ISP? You 
need to get one or more nameserver ip's from your ISP. That's what 
goes in resolv.conf
  

Thanks,

Bill
    

Don
  

   It's a personal lan with primarily Windows machines on it.
   albny.adelphia.net is the ISP prefix. I don't recall editing
   resolv.conf before, meaning something I did in sysinstall must have
   put that in there. Adelphia is the isp (cable connection). They're
   configuration instructions for Windows say to "automatically DNS
   address automatically". I've got that option checked in the router, as
   well. I believe the router gets it from the isp, then provides it to
   the rest of the machines, but networking has never been my specialty!
   :-p
   Bill