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Subject: hostnames and interfaces
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hey all,
I first encountered networking in CISCO land... where IP addresses and host 
names seem to be associated...

what is the freeBSD way?  AFAICS, a machine has a defined name regardless of 
howmany interfaces it has.  if one splits the world up into hosts (one 
interface) and routers (multiple interfaces) can one define multiple 
hostnames?

to expand on this, there is a potential many to many relationship here between 
host names and IP addresses (strickly speaking that is what dns etc sees?)

how dose BSD define this? how does one define this using BSD?


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