From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 20:40: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E339937B407 for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 20:39:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooh (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4L3doNv002047 for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 22:39:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17A0V0-0000AS-00 for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 22:39:46 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing host name References: <00b401c20049$95f095e0$fe01a8c0@armageddon> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 20 May 2002 22:39:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <00b401c20049$95f095e0$fe01a8c0@armageddon> Message-ID: <87offatbi5.fsf@strauser.com> Lines: 11 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-05-20T21:59:14Z, "Eric F Crist" writes: > All you really *need* to do is make sure the DNS servers resolve the name > correctly. The computer itself couldn't care less what it's own host name > was. I *almost* agree, except that starting Sendmail with an invalid hostname can cause quite a few bounced outgoing mails. -- Kirk Strauser To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message