From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 16:55:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA21326 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 16:55:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (aspen.woc.atinc.com [198.138.38.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA21320 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 16:55:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA06348; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:54:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:54:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: JOHN cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yet Another Question (tcp-ip services) In-Reply-To: <01HZKRGR2B368WWSBQ@POMONA.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, JOHN wrote: > to my own machine by either typing > a) telnet machine.domain.edu > b) telnet localhost > c) telnet 127.0.0.1 > edit /etc/host.conf. it lists three methods for converting machine name to ip addresses (and the reverse). the three are: bind the domain name server daemon hosts your /etc/hosts file #nis sun's network information system (nee yellow pages) commented out with a "#" change the order to: hosts bind #nis edit /etc/hosts add information for your machine, like this: 127.0.0.1 Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM localhost 10.0.0.1 aspen 10.0.0.2 kooka 192.216.222.4 freefall.cdrom.com 198.138.38.7 kryten.woc.atinc.com kryten.atinc.com kryten > Finally, as another newbie question, does the MH mail handling system operate > as a replacement for sendmail, or is it an addition to it? mh is a mail reader. sendmail is a mail transfer agent, like your local postman and the rest of the postal service. only faster Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG