From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 04:14:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1734116A4CF for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 04:14:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.hispeed.ch (mxout.hispeed.ch [62.2.95.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7269943D31 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 04:14:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hampi@rootshell.be) Received: from gicco.homeip.net (80-218-79-182.dclient.hispeed.ch [80.218.79.182])hBICDxPk000442 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:14:00 +0100 Received: from localhost.here (idefix@gicco.homeip.net [127.0.0.1]) by gicco.homeip.net (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hBICDw5t001015 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:13:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hampi@rootshell.be) Received: (from idefix@localhost) by localhost.here (8.12.8p2/8.12.8/Submit) id hBICDwJ6001014 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:13:58 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.here: idefix set sender to hampi@rootshell.be using -f Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:13:58 +0100 From: Hanspeter Roth To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031218121358.GA876@gicco.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031215124154.GB604@gicco.homeip.net> <444qw048il.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <444qw048il.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: identity using send-pr with dynamic address X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:14:04 -0000 On Dec 16 at 19:01, Lowell Gilbert spoke: > You should be able to send PRs with *any* DNS name that maps to your > address. If you want a permanent one, there are some free "dynamic" > DNS services out there. If you just want to set the hostname > automatically, note that dhclient will do it automatically if the DHCP > server sends the hostname to it (and if not, you can probably script > something up fairly easily). Yes, but the hostnames that result from the dynamic address are often quite long and ugly. That's why I don't allow dhclient to set the hostname automatically. My host doesn't offer any service to the internet. Thus I'm not interested to have an accessible "dynamic" hostname which is resolvable in the internet. But as shown in Simon Barner's article http://home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/articles/mailsetup/article.html the _genericstable_ feature can be used for outbound aliases. That's what I'm using now. -Hanspeter