From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 31 19:15:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from valhalla.umbc.edu (valhalla.umbc.edu [130.85.253.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE14A37B9DE for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 19:15:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu) Received: from alumni.umbc.edu (umcp-200.dialup.umbc.edu [131.118.254.200]) by valhalla.umbc.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA11745 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:15:09 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38E569C3.19D117B3@alumni.umbc.edu> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:15:15 -0500 From: Sandip Srivastava X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Network Setup and Files Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a dialup connection to the internet. My IP address gets dynamically assigned each time I connect to my ISP. And the ISP also assigns the FQDN relative to the IP address it assigns at the time I connect. In this scenario, what FQDN should I give my machine? Also what should my hosts file look like? -Sandip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message