On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:05:06 Peter Pluta wrote:
> I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http,
> smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm
> wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's
> localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when I
> first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
its fairly simple actually. example:
my system's name is athena. my domain, is dfwlp.com... thus my computer is
athena.dfwlp.com. the hostname command can show you waht your current
hostname is:
[jhorne@athena ~] $ hostname
athena.dfwlp.com
also, there is a line in /etc/rc.conf that specifys the system's hostname when
you start up:
[jhorne@athena ~] $ cat /etc/rc.conf|grep hostname
hostname="athena.dfwlp.com"
finally, when you are installing freebsd, during the "network configuration"
page, the "Host:" box would be where i would put "athena", and the "Domain:"
box would be where i put "dfwlp.com" (when you set your domain, you dont put
the . in front of the domain name, ie, dont put .dfwlp.com in the domain
box).
cheers,
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Jonathan Horne
http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org
freebsd@dfwlp.com