Hello all,
While we are on the topic, after the hostname and domain have been setup from the initial installation, how can they be changed? I went through the FreeBSD manual and some Google searching and did not come up with anything that made any sense. I assume there are files to be edited, probably under /etc. I am just not sure what all of them are. Any assistance (or reference to a site that will explain this to me) will be greatly appreciated (I am a newbie to UNIX and especially FreeBSD).
Regards,
Anthony
On Mar 31, 2005, at 5:13 PM, Tomas Quintero wrote:
Essentially, the host is the 'name of the machine' if you will. So if you want, you can name it betty, or uberserver1. It doesn't matter. For that fact, as far as I really know, nor does the domain matter. However commonly when naming servers and such, they have corresponding names and domains so that they can be labeled and people who need to know, know what these machines do.
In short, no, the names do not matter for your internal home network.
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:52:52 -0500, Jonathan Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Something I've never been able to figure out. When installing a new machine, and you come to the "Network Configuration" dialog, what do you put in for the Host: and Domain: if it is a machine on an internal network (ie., 192.168.1.149)? Does it matter? Just give it a simple hostname and be done with it? Make something up?
-- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/
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