From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 30 00:20:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0304516A418 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:20:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from kuber.nabble.com (kuber.nabble.com [216.139.236.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCDEE13C481 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:20:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IQXlO-0004hc-Ex for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:19:58 -0700 Message-ID: <12398404.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:19:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Pluta To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200708291916.58069.freebsd@dfwlp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: peter@placidpublishing.net References: <12398274.post@talk.nabble.com> <200708291916.58069.freebsd@dfwlp.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way 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: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:20:13 -0000 Jonathan Horne wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:05:06 Peter Pluta wrote: >> I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http, >> smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm >> wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's >> localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when >> I >> first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Thanks! > > its fairly simple actually. example: > > my system's name is athena. my domain, is dfwlp.com... thus my computer > is > athena.dfwlp.com. the hostname command can show you waht your current > hostname is: > > [jhorne@athena ~] $ hostname > athena.dfwlp.com > > also, there is a line in /etc/rc.conf that specifys the system's hostname > when > you start up: > > [jhorne@athena ~] $ cat /etc/rc.conf|grep hostname > hostname="athena.dfwlp.com" > > finally, when you are installing freebsd, during the "network > configuration" > page, the "Host:" box would be where i would put "athena", and the > "Domain:" > box would be where i put "dfwlp.com" (when you set your domain, you dont > put > the . in front of the domain name, ie, dont put .dfwlp.com in the domain > box). > > cheers, > -- > Jonathan Horne > http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org > freebsd@dfwlp.com > _______________________________________________ > 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" > > Right, my current box is mail.placidpublishing.com, I only have 1 box, and it does web and mail. I just picked placidpublishing and used that since it was a domain I had laying arond. Is that "ok"? How does one pick a domain? Just any old domain? I keep visualizing a domain as in 3-4 servers each of which has a hostname mail, web, etc.. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-Hostname-Question---Whats-The-Proper-Way-tf4351213.html#a12398404 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.