Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:33:31 -0800 (PST) From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> To: j.saito@wanadoo.fr, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I determine "hostname" ? Message-ID: <19971216193331.10284.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>
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A hostname is nothing but a name for the IP number for your machine. It is useless when trying to access the outside world from your machine but is very useful when the outside world is trying to access your machine. Hostname on your machine allows other machines on the network to find this machine by name instead of remembering the IP number. Your problems sound like a problem in getting PPP up and running, so if you can expand on the steps you are tacking in connecting to your ISP thne Brian can figure out right away what's going on :-) Rudy. ---j.saito@wanadoo.fr wrote: > > I am a bit confused as to how I set up "hostname" on my PC. > I only have a dial-up account. Is that my login name to the IP ? > It seems, however, that it is not used to reach other sites but > another one, which is apparently attributed dynamically as is my > IP address. > I tried to set up PPP following the PPP section of the handbook. > I can reach my IP and pign it but when I ping other remote sites, > I only get "Hostname lookup failure". What is wrong with the > configuraiton ? The version of FreeBSD is 2.2.5. Any suggestions > will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > j.saito@wanadoo.fr (J. Saito) > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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