Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:03:27 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> To: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting hostname - fake and real Message-ID: <42301B6F.9000305@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200503100824.37018.ben@spooty.net> References: <20050309120046.6112A16A4D4@hub.freebsd.org> <200503100824.37018.ben@spooty.net>
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Ben Paley wrote: >>-----Original Message----- > > >>From: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> >>Subject: RE: Setting hostname - fake and real >>To: "'FreeBSD-Questions Questions'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > > >>>On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Hello Ben >>>>Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not >>> >>>entirely sure I >>> >>>>understand why you would want to use fake dns names. >>> >>>I don't especially want to use a fake name, I just don't have >>>a real one to use... the machine I'm talking about is my home >>>machine with dynamic IP >> >>Why not simply add an entry to /etc/hosts? Like I do to get a >>pretty name for logins from my XP machine: >> >>192.168.0.6 my-xp-machine.org >> >>- Mark > > > Ok, what IP do I put? My dynamic IP in the real world (which is pretty static > in practice), or something else? The address you've used in your example > looks like my vmnet addresses. > > Cheers, > Ben > You can simply use 127.0.0.1 in there. 127.0.0.1 localhost my-xp-machine.org Chris
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