From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 23:12:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web14706.mail.yahoo.com (web14706.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6F6337B401 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:12:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayneclubin@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010614061219.8584.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.131.161.101] by web14706.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:12:19 PDT Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:12:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Wayne Lubin Subject: Hostname To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I connect to the internet with DSL and I am using an ehternet card. My question is if my machine does not have a domain name(has just an ip address), then what value do I use for 'hostname' in the rc.conf file. Right now I just put in a word, 'Buster' I think I used, but at boot up when sendmail starts up it waits for a few minutes with the msg 'My unqualified host name (Buster) unknown: Sleeping for retry' and then then prints 'using short name'. Can someone explain please. Thank you. Wayne __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message