From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 09:17:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA26013 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:17:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from acs4.bu.edu (root@ACS4.BU.EDU [128.197.154.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA26008 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:17:26 -0800 (PST) From: rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu Received: by acs4.bu.edu (8.6.13/BU_SmartClient-1.0) id MAA110373; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:14:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 12:14:09 -0500 Message-Id: <199603111714.MAA110373@acs4.bu.edu> To: Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: User PPP, dynamic IP, and /etc/hosts Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Perhaps a dumb question, but: I'm trying to set up user PPP on a FreeBSD 2.1 system at home. Currently it only has a modem (no local network) which I will use to connect to a university sys. which assigns IP addresses dynamically. Q: What address do I use for myself in /etc/hosts? Thanks- Russ Murphy [Looks like a nice OS so far-thanks for that too. . .]