Date: 29 Dec 1999 22:00:25 -0500 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Outside host name and DHCP Message-ID: <871z8516ba.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>
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I'm on a cable modem, and use DHCP to configure my outside interface. The dhcp server always assigns me the same ip, and a host name of "cr103675-a.bloo1.on.wave.home.com". I've got myself a real domain, and wonder if there's a way to make my box seen to the world as "soup.thpoon.com" instead of the above hostname. Can this be done? I wonder if (and how) current situation might impact my ability to send email direct (as opposed to via smart-host), as I have an MX-record for thpoon.com, but not for xxx.home.com. I know that some smtp servers perform reverse-lookup, but have no idea how such lookup works. Thanks for any input! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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