From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 17:46:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA04959 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:46:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu (tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu [128.54.173.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA04851 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:46:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taco@tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu) Received: from localhost (taco@localhost) by tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA02411; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:46:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taco@tshansen.reshall.ucsd.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 17:46:12 -0800 (PST) From: "Todd 'Taco' Hansen" Reply-To: taco@mad.scientist.com To: michael cc: freebsd questions Subject: Re: dorm room ethernet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG no. if you had your own domain name, or found someone who was giving them out, you could assign a name from their domain, but you don't have any power to globally change/modify another organizations domain names. Unless of course you only want this name to apply to people connecting from your machine, then you do a host file. On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, michael wrote: > hi, > > I'm really ignorant when it comes to network stuff so heres my question. > > I have a friend who lives on our university campus and her apartment is > wired for ethernet. I was interested in piecing together a machine running > 2.2.5 and plugging it into her wall. However the school uses DHCP and > issues out funky names for each machine connected. I was wondering if it > was possible to do something such that I can broadcast another name > so my machine would respond to the default name and my customized name. > > something like this: > default: ss-d0015.resnet.ucsc.edu > what I like: beta.resnet.ucsc.edu > > thanks > > micahel > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message > -- "Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch??!" -- W. C. Fields Todd Hansen, KD6YPS http://sehplib.ucsd.edu/~tshansen/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message