From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 20:50:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B95E37B401; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:50:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23883; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:20:33 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:20:33 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Robert Watson Subject: RE: Setting default hostname to localhost Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Jan-01 Robert Watson wrote: > not to (which there may be), I'd like to commit changes to -CURRENT's > /etc/default/rc.conf to change the default hostname to "localhost". If > the user configures a hostname, or DHCP provides one, it will be > overridden, of course, so should not impact any configuration but one > where the hostname is left undefined. > > Thoughts? Sounds like a nice idea. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message