From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 15 19:23:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vulcan.addy.com (vulcan.addy.com [208.11.142.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B855037B6AF for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:23:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by vulcan.addy.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA72690; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 22:23:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200007160223.WAA72690@vulcan.addy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Ariel Burbaickij" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:34:31 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Changing the name of the machine Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:35:08 +0200 (MET DST), Ariel Burbaickij wrote: >yourname.dyndns.org.Yet the question:may i just change the name >of the machine simply just out of blue due to changed circumstances >and if yes what steps are necessary ? You don't have to change the name of your machine. For your reference if you wanted to change the name you change it in /etc/rc.conf. The reason you don't have to change the name is that the name you give it is not known to the outside world, therefore not a problem. DynDNS provides you an entry which will point yourname.dyndns.com to your machine regardles off how you name your machine. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message