Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 19:14:44 -0700 From: "Peter Michaux" <petermichaux@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: setting host name during install? Message-ID: <3cbaf1c80605201914l297d58dcve9e22bb99faee470@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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