From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 27 21: 3:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au (sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au [24.192.3.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5595C14E39 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 21:03:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au) Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-49-170.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.49.170]) by sr14.nsw-remote.bigpond.net.au (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA17586 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:03:23 +1100 (EDT) Received: (qmail 20389 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Jan 2000 05:03:21 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:03:21 +1100 To: Mike Smith Cc: Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Message-ID: <20000128160321.A19649@gurney.reilly.home> References: <200001280226.VAA21947@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200001280253.SAA05541@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200001280253.SAA05541@mass.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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