From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 1 03:26:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6105916A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 03:26:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post5.inre.asu.edu (post5.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F03F743D3F for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 03:26:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iqgrande@asu.edu) Received: from conversion.post5.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1-1X6 #30769) id <0IE90010107PTZ@asu.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:26:13 -0700 (MST) Received: from smtp.asu.edu (smtp.asu.edu [129.219.110.107]) <0IE900NOE07P2U@asu.edu>; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:26:13 -0700 (MST) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (enuxgs.eas.asu.edu [149.169.30.26]) (8.12.10/8.12.10/asu_smtp_relay,nullclient,tcp_wrapped) with ESMTP id j313QDMC013796; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:26:13 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:26:13 -0500 From: "Anthony M. Agelastos" In-reply-to: <9e46c99e05033114133842921e@mail.gmail.com> To: Tomas Quintero Message-id: <5adc49922399d3d2b84b9f21fadcd415@asu.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <9e46c99e05033114133842921e@mail.gmail.com> cc: Jonathan Arnold cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up network X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:26:16 -0000 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 > 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" >