Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:03:21 +1100 From: "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Message-ID: <20000128160321.A19649@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <200001280253.SAA05541@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200001280226.VAA21947@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200001280253.SAA05541@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 06:53:51PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > Since the hostname is simply a plain-text token for the IP address, it > has to remain bound to the IP address (whether that binding is fixed or > dynamic is outside the scope of this discussion). Having a hostname that > doesn't map to your IP address is a misconfiguration, and not a useful > one at that. My system has two ethernet cards, and two IP addresses. One of these is assigned by DHCP and the other is fixed, on my local network. I prefer for my hostname to relate to the local address. Just another data point. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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