From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 27 17:57:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC74D157BA; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:57:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA21728; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:57:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:57:08 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200001280157.UAA21728@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT In-Reply-To: <46146.949017991@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <20000127144207.A81615@dragon.nuxi.com> <46146.949017991@zippy.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > citizen" these days without a resolvable hostname that also matches > your primary IP address or, among other things, you won't be able to > send mail directly to anyone who practices traditional spam filtering > techniques. However, there is no need to actually use the configured hostname for this purpose. `temp-4224.lcs.mit.edu' is just that, temporary -- I want my machine to know what its *real* identity is. From my perspective, when I'm installing a FreeBSD machine, the DHCP client option serves only to quick-start the installation -- the machine will eventually have a real address. It would be useful to me if sysinstall paid attention to the hostname I specified > the hostname will currently cause it to override the DHCP hostname > value even if it is specified (as it certainly is on *my* DHCP server :-) > and result in broken behavior for the aformentioned mailers. You have your mail server set to ``authenticate'' based on the HELO? That's the only thing in the SMTP protocol that the kernel's hostname setting has any impact on. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message