From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 14:47:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ultra.comspace.com (209-16-25-2.insync.net [209.16.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B32B637B4C5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:47:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from danield (cs16255-41.houston.rr.com [24.162.55.41]) by ultra.comspace.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA25009; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:46:45 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <01d801c0501f$0a701620$0d00a8c0@comspace.com> From: "Daniel Domengeaux" To: "Chimon Yeung" , References: <3A14639D.ECFEADA4@fremont.sourcee.com> Subject: Re: Hostname/IP--How to Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:45:51 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | Hello, | | How do I make my hostname (ex: seal.fans.com) bind with the IP address | so when I ping, ftp, or telnet to that UNIX box, I can type in the | hostname instead of the IP address? edit the /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 seal.fans.com seal -daniel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message