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From: "Michael O'Henly" <michael@tenzo.com>
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Subject: What is the correct way to name my machine?
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 16:54:42 -0700
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My internet access is provided via cable modem and DHCP. The result is a 
default machine name that looks like "h123-123-123-123.gv.shawcable.net" 
(those "123's" are actually my IP address).

Two questions:

1. I'd like to change the default name to something else so that wherever the 
above is used now, the new name would be used instead. What do I update to 
make this change?

2. I'd like to create some aliases that may also be used to refer to the 
machine. Under Linux, I'd do this once in /etc/hosts and the aliases would 
become globally available. Is this true of FreeBSD as well?

Thanks.

M.

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Michael O'Henly

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