From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Apr 20 21:45:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7741837B400 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Master.gorean.org (master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3L4jLHt070614; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:45:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from Master.gorean.org (zoot [127.0.0.1]) by Master.gorean.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3L4jNLr016459; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:45:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by Master.gorean.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id g3L4jNaC016456; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:45:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Master.gorean.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:45:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: doug@master.gorean.org Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org To: Joshua Lokken Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: host configuration In-Reply-To: <008501c1e8cc$0b6d4f10$dbf9e10c@churgeon> Message-ID: <20020420214012.P15997-100000@master.gorean.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For future reference, questions should go to freebsd-questions. This list was created for new users to discuss their experiences. On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Joshua Lokken wrote: > I could use a couple of tips. > > My Windows hostname is: joshualokken@attbi.com > > when i ifconfig in freebsd, how should i set the hostname, > > joshualokken.attbi.com ? If you know your IP address (the one that at&t gave you), you can do 'host 22.33.44.55', or whatever your IP is, and figure out what your hostname should be. Then, you can do 'hostname blah.blah.attbi.com' as root. Also, are you sure you're not supposed to be using dhcp? Is this a dialup line, or a cable modem? If it's a cable modem, you should be using dhcp, which should set the hostname for you. There's lots of info about this in the mail archives. Good luck. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message