My cable operator provides me with a dhcp service. I successfully configured my interface and got a valid IP address.
However, do I really have to specify the cable operator's domain or can I put my own vanhoecke.org domain and a fixed node name, e.g, freebilly? My ISP provides me with a kabel.telenet.be domain name and a temporary node name Dxyz12ad. The latter is ugly and not fixed, and as such not worthy to identify my brand new machine. The interface configuration tool does allow freebilly.vanhoecke.org, but I am afraid this will complicate things somewhere down the line. The tool rewrites my /etc/hosts without any mention of the lovely freebilly node name (I presume it could have been generated as alias, but maybe it doesn't like its nickname): 127.0.0.1 localhost.vanhoecke.org localhost I am afraid that I need to tell the system somewhere that freebilly really is an alias for localhost. I will surely need this when I will configure nfs access from a couple of windoze workstations to freebilly. These machines are interconnected thru a small hub and used to find each other over the 'NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible Transport Protocol'. I still have to figure out how I will integrate freebilly in this little network, but at the very leats, it will need a name of its own, I presume. Where and how do I permanently register freebilly's name without upsetting anything so that this is known by all applications inside freebilly (and possibly such that my windoze machines detect it it their 'neighborhood')? TIA, Guido. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
