From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 19: 0:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C71CB151F1 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:00:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from tea.thpoon.com ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <19991230025816.XAZU7552.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@tea.thpoon.com> for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 18:58:16 -0800 Received: from antipode by tea.thpoon.com with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 123VpB-00005d-00; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 22:00:25 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Outside host name and DHCP X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 29 Dec 1999 22:00:25 -0500 Message-ID: <871z8516ba.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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