From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 21 04:16:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ADD416A420 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 04:16:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petermichaux@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6156443D45 for ; Sun, 21 May 2006 04:16:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermichaux@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so1036631uge for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 21:16:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dQU/lJbDmc6a7D2j5wcGEcUn2KT2MJRr/fRoG+5dRsQa3RzWfvXzRc5CqTU6E3T5PXdJNFNhycrj1OiNDwo1ew70vIk8LXJUsxHGCl1TrdFZREcc4Rqfm3uf9wwI5zfbuMYPtD+H3H+hQT5QVB8Dy+4uTMFoJxibUQCaqGaKfoA= Received: by 10.78.56.19 with SMTP id e19mr877408hua; Sat, 20 May 2006 21:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.34.4 with HTTP; Sat, 20 May 2006 21:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3cbaf1c80605202116g2c29c231p33a24720130d576e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 21:16:51 -0700 From: "Peter Michaux" To: "SM X" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3eea144b0605202056v2023be56he18aa573c99347cb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3cbaf1c80605201914l297d58dcve9e22bb99faee470@mail.gmail.com> <3eea144b0605202056v2023be56he18aa573c99347cb@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: setting host name during install? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 04:16:53 -0000 Hi, Thanks for the info. I reversed what I had done and then used sysinstall. Going through sysinstall let me enter "beastie.gv.shawcable.net" as my host name. However when I try the following two url's i get and unknown host. http://beastie:3000/ http://beastie.gv.shawcable.net:3000/ Any other ideas? Thanks, Peter On 5/20/06, SM X wrote: > For changing hostname (and/or IP), I found that the best way is to use > sysinstall and change it from there (Configure --> Networking --> > Interfaces --> "your NIC"), since that one will change not only > rc.conf file, but also the hosts file (so that your browser can > actually resolve name beastie in the http request), and potentially > resolv.conf (where your name server entries (not in your case, since > you are on DHCP, therefore you get the DNS server entries > automatically) are stored. > > Obviously, the remedy in your case is to manually edit the hosts file > and assign the appropriate values there. > > Or you can always just use http://localhost:3000 and that should work. > Hope this helps, > smx > > P.S. I would not consider myself an expert, so , if I made any > mistakes above, hopefully others will alert us all about those. What I > can tell you is that I did try the procedure above several times and > it was working for me. > > On 5/20/06, Peter Michaux wrote: > > Hi, > > > > During install, I don't quite understand the "host" parameter that I > > supplied for my networking configuration. > > > > I used DHPC and most of the parameters were filled in for me > > > > Host: > > Domain: gv.shawcable.net > > IPv4 Gateway: 192.168.0.1 > > Name server: 192.168.0.1 > > IPv4 Address: 192.168.0.103 > > Netmask: 255.255.255.0 > > Extra options to ifconfig (usually empty): > > > > When I pressed tab in the Host box it automatically filled in with > > ".gv.shawcable.net" which make sense since I have a cable modem from > > Shaw in Greater Victoria. But it seems like something should have gone > > before the first dot. Is there an opportunity here to give my computer > > a cool name like "beastie" so I can type things like > > "http://beastie:3000" instead of "http://192.168.0.103:3000" ? Or is > > this host name supposed to be some server at my ISP? > > > > I changed the hostname using the following steps but I don't know what > > I really gained. > > > > 1. vi /etc/rc.conf > > 2. change > > hostname=".gv.shawcable.net" > > to > > hostname="beastie" > > 3. restart computer so change becomes reality. > > 4. now the command prompt says root@beastie > > > > When I tried "http://beastie:3000" I ended up at the Beastie Boys > > website. Not the worst suprise but not what I was hoping for. > > > > Thanks, > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >