From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 3:15:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from doofus.our.net.au (doofus.our.net.au [203.60.16.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 406C837B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 03:15:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hpicken@our.net.au) Received: from hpicken (ppp008.ltn.our.net.au [203.34.253.73]) by doofus.our.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA44075 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 20:14:52 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from hpicken@our.net.au) From: "Howard Picken" To: "FreeBSD Mail List" Subject: a bit of help with hosts Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 20:16:19 +1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm setting up a FreeBSD 4.2 box at home on our network. And getting books on the subject in my little town is frustrating as I like to see what I'm buying first. So the only info I have is the manual, the web and these lists (which is probably better than a book anyway). I have Windows units on the network (TCP/IP) and mine has Apache, MySQL and PHP installed and running (named localhost). I would like to keep my unit running as is but I would like to duplicate the configuration on the FreeBSD box (named bsdbox). How should I configure the FreeBSD box to run as a webserver and not look for a DNS entry and not be a localhost from other units on the network. I have no problems setting the Hosts file on the Windows units but I can't get my head around the Hosts file and the resolv.conf on the FreeBSD box. I have managed to install FreeBSD and Apache and I see the index.html on bsdbox (http://bsdbox) but I do get errors like "unqualified host name (bsdbox) unknown" and a lot of mail errors for root. Give me a DOS/Windows box (as bad as they are) and I can get it jump hoops but I've to feel like I'm getting anyway with FreeBsd (not that any of it's FreeBSD's fault). Anyway, any help would be appreciated thanks Howard Picken hpicken@our.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message