From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 26 16:39:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E21C114F23 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:39:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #12) id 10GVXS-000DH7-00; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 22:15:18 +0000 (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 22:15:18 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: "Stevan S." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about naming a server Message-ID: <19990226221518.A50990@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <4.1.19990226122802.0093e700@mail.austin.cc.tx.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990226122802.0093e700@mail.austin.cc.tx.us> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stevan S. wrote: > My question is - when I access the server this is the address that I use: > http://m198214188122.austin.cc.tx.us/ > ftp://m198214188122.austin.cc.tx.us/ or ftp m198214188122.austin.cc.tx.us > > But what I want the address to read is: > http://etv.austin.cc.tx.us/ > ftp://etv.austin.cc.tx.us/ or ftp etv.austin.cc.tx.us > > What do I need to do to make this work. The college already had the > austin.cc.tx.us domain. I just want to name the machine. You'll need to get the dns administrator for austin.cc.tx.us to add a cname record, such as etv IN CNAME m198214188122 or something, or alternatively. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message