From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 13 5:10:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 814C737B419 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 05:10:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.152.19]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020113131051.YQTN6966.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 13:10:51 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0DDAnn90058; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 13:10:49 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0DDA4h15835; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 13:10:04 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 13:10:04 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: =?us-ascii?Q?hostname_=3D=3F?= Message-ID: <20020113131004.B287@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 08:26:11PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE i386 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 On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 08:26:11PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > I have hostname='gateway.home.com" in rc.conf. > Other than prefixing the command line with the > word gateway what does this do? > Is it the full domain name of my box? > How can I use this name? It's the name that any program that needs to identify your machine will use... e.g. if you send mail directly from the FreeBSD box, that name will likely appear in the headers somewhere. The name you choose for your machine is pretty much irrelevant unless you're planning to expose it to the wider Internet, by running some kind of server on your machine. At which point you'll need a properly registered domain name, DNS service, etc. I'm guessing you're not doing any of that, so your made-up name should be fine... just remember to use your ISPs mail server rather than sending directly from your FreeBSD machine (a lot of mail servers will reject mail from unresolvable addresses, or those where the name doesn't match the address). HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message