From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 16:15:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web2004.mail.yahoo.com (web2004.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.204]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26C333FAE for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 16:15:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4595 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Feb 2000 00:15:23 -0000 Message-ID: <20000202001523.4594.qmail@web2004.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [206.152.188.2] by web2004.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 01 Feb 2000 16:15:23 PST Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 16:15:23 -0800 (PST) From: Isaac Waldron Subject: Hostname setup for local machine. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What is the correct method for setting up the hostname for a machine that has no official name? I have a dial-up ISP account that does not allow me a real domain name. That is, I have no official information to put into the hostname variable in /etc/rc.conf. Should I just make something up, and tack the domain of my ISP on the end, or is there a protocol I need to follow for this kind of thing? Thanks in advance, Isaac Waldron waldroni@lr.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message