Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:26:13 -0500 From: "Anthony M. Agelastos" <iqgrande@asu.edu> To: Tomas Quintero <tomasq@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up network Message-ID: <5adc49922399d3d2b84b9f21fadcd415@asu.edu> In-Reply-To: <9e46c99e05033114133842921e@mail.gmail.com> References: <d2hrd9$e88$1@sea.gmane.org> <9e46c99e05033114133842921e@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello all, While we are on the topic, after the hostname and domain have been setup from the initial installation, how can they be changed? I went through the FreeBSD manual and some Google searching and did not come up with anything that made any sense. I assume there are files to be edited, probably under /etc. I am just not sure what all of them are. Any assistance (or reference to a site that will explain this to me) will be greatly appreciated (I am a newbie to UNIX and especially FreeBSD). Regards, Anthony On Mar 31, 2005, at 5:13 PM, Tomas Quintero wrote: > Essentially, the host is the 'name of the machine' if you will. So if > you want, you can name it betty, or uberserver1. It doesn't matter. > For that fact, as far as I really know, nor does the domain matter. > However commonly when naming servers and such, they have corresponding > names and domains so that they can be labeled and people who need to > know, know what these machines do. > > In short, no, the names do not matter for your internal home network. > > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:52:52 -0500, Jonathan Arnold > <jdarnold@buddydog.org> wrote: >> Something I've never been able to figure out. When installing a >> new machine, and you come to the "Network Configuration" dialog, >> what do you put in for the Host: and Domain: if it is a machine >> on an internal network (ie., 192.168.1.149)? Does it matter? >> Just give it a simple hostname and be done with it? Make something >> up? >> >> -- >> Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) >> Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: >> http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > -- > -Tomas Quintero > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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