From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Mar 22 15:12:51 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25ACF4CB9A for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:12:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jude.obscure@yandex.com) Received: from forward104p.mail.yandex.net (forward104p.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1472:2741:0:8b7:107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "forwards.mail.yandex.net", Issuer "Yandex CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6EFCE79D03 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:12:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jude.obscure@yandex.com) Received: from mxback12g.mail.yandex.net (mxback12g.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1472:2741:0:8b7:91]) by forward104p.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id B4BBF181D69; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:12:41 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp1j.mail.yandex.net (smtp1j.mail.yandex.net [2a02:6b8:0:801::ab]) by mxback12g.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id 16dZoruGCT-Cf0CRpT8; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:12:41 +0300 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.com; s=mail; t=1521731561; bh=MzZLroePWUWsfADFxTIiWzInBWkCgPKr+cRfyxBjblo=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date:In-Reply-To; b=a+PkxFppdWyyJJubTON47tKnWIKZiTLoh4C3e1fvpdmu5tc+eUPcbcDTGYefhELxI qlYnVZ8tF5nASTnLlbCgEgPpNmBPBjyrLu6mtWGBmDG7W0YZ5E1KjbDzMoMColfZGu jx1Njl6YZngWqSxcs6OAxPJR6TqWugJ7J/3sF5uE= Received: by smtp1j.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id 0688Lk8U1b-CdZaSW4Z; Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:12:40 +0300 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.com; s=mail; t=1521731561; bh=MzZLroePWUWsfADFxTIiWzInBWkCgPKr+cRfyxBjblo=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date:In-Reply-To; b=a+PkxFppdWyyJJubTON47tKnWIKZiTLoh4C3e1fvpdmu5tc+eUPcbcDTGYefhELxI qlYnVZ8tF5nASTnLlbCgEgPpNmBPBjyrLu6mtWGBmDG7W0YZ5E1KjbDzMoMColfZGu jx1Njl6YZngWqSxcs6OAxPJR6TqWugJ7J/3sF5uE= Authentication-Results: smtp1j.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.com Subject: Re: how to set hostname on a cable line? To: Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201803211834.w2LIY9Jh059885@jail0199.vps.exonetric.net> <79cc198c-daa9-1cb2-020f-d11d7d3d396a@yandex.com> <20180321213005.GA73927@jail0199.vps.exonetric.net> <20180321232254.3a2dc696.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180322121320.GA66012@jail0199.vps.exonetric.net> From: Manish Jain Message-ID: <86e6405e-a0e0-8d9c-c363-b6537ef4ed8d@yandex.com> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:42:26 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180322121320.GA66012@jail0199.vps.exonetric.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:12:51 -0000 On 03/22/18 17:43, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > No matter what I put there, > ssh `hostname` will not work, because > my randomly chosen hostname will not resolve to my IP! Hi Anton, I suppose you have already tried something like this, but I just wanted to be sure: can you not 1) put fqdn in rc.conf; and then 2) put the IP for the machine's fqdn in /etc/hosts on the box that needs to ssh ? -- Tx and Regards, Manish Jain