From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 14:32:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx3out.umbc.edu (mx3out.umbc.edu [130.85.253.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B562837B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:32:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu) Received: from irix2.gl.umbc.edu (gmiddl1@irix2.gl.umbc.edu [130.85.60.11]) by mx3out.umbc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29104 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 17:32:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 17:32:32 -0500 From: "G. Jason Middleton" To: Subject: hostname aliasing Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG my bsd bosx has a hostname from comcast but i am about to host a domain and run dns....so what i want to know is how to enter an alias in the hosts file so that my computer will have 2 names instead of the silly old comcast one. everyone understand? did i ask the question with enough detail? I just wanna know the syntax for "hostname aliasing" not sure if that is what it is called. in the meantime i will be looking though Greg's book and the handbook. Regards G. Jason Middleton _______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement: The revolution will not be televised. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message