From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat May 18 14: 0:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from email.telnor.net (email.telnor.net [200.23.249.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA9337B405 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 14:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kris (red-corb1-200383-121.telnor.net [200.38.3.121]) by email.telnor.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2001.07.26.11.50.p9) with ESMTP id <0GWB000J0QVZ1Y@email.telnor.net> for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 18 May 2002 13:43:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 13:58:08 -0700 From: jehova Subject: localhost for dummies To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200205181358.08845.tornadox@telnor.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org how can i put a name to my box? and how can i doit without ill efects or misconfiguration, what happens is that i can't (i don't know how) setup host name localhost alias and a basic loopback configuration for a stand alone freebsd machine (no lan, no other boxes atached) just a 56 k usRobotics modem (working) on ppp connection to my ISP telnor.net 200.23.249.1 and 200.23.249.3 if somebody please can help me, i'll send him more info about my box. -- _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ __ Jehova _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \/ \ tornadox@telnor.net _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | | FreeBSD!!! _ |___/___/___/ \/ "Extracting Wisdom from Sinful... () ...Searching State of Purity." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message