From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 12 00:04:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA24161 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:04:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mph124b.rh.psu.edu (MPH124B.rh.psu.edu [128.118.126.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA24135 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:03:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter@pobox.com) From: gsutter@pobox.com Received: from localhost (gsutter@localhost) by mph124b.rh.psu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA19569; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 03:03:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gsutter@pobox.com) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 03:03:50 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: gsutter@mph124b.rh.psu.edu To: Last of the House of Rurik cc: taco@mad.scientist.com, michael , freebsd questions Subject: Re: dorm room ethernet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Last of the House of Rurik wrote: >On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Todd 'Taco' Hansen wrote: > >> no. if you had your own domain name, or found someone who was giving them >> out, you could assign a name from their domain, but you don't have any >> power to globally change/modify another organizations domain names. Unless >> of course you only want this name to apply to people connecting from your >> machine, then you do a host file. > > is your best bet. Be careful, though. Penn State sneaked a change into their computer dictums last year outlawing non-PSU secondary domain name servers. Several people I know had to change their systems' names. Other universities may have done similar things. GReg -- Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:gsutter@pobox.com "You uudecode it." http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message