From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 17:26:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA04134 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 17:26:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA04127 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 17:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA00553; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 17:28:54 -0700 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 17:28:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mitch Shaw cc: "'FreeBSD Mailing List'" Subject: Re: My FreeBSD host name and static IP question. In-Reply-To: <01BB2E8A.D466EBE0@dal1-7.conline.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, Mitch Shaw wrote: > Does anybody know a way or "hack" to keep your host name > if your host name is static but your ip is dynamic? When I join the irc > it always says dal1-??.conline.com instead of zeid.conline.com. Or when > I fire up netscape and point my browser to http://zeid.conline.com netscape > can't even find my computer when it's running on it. I have to point my browser > to my actual ip address or dal1-??.conline.com. Is this possible to do > with a dynamic ip? Thanks :) Try adding "zeid" and "zeid.conline.com" to the 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts. I haven't tried this, but just a thought. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major