On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 06:18:43PM -0500, Andrew Daugherity wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net> wrote:
> > The /etc/myname and /etc/mygate have been in OpenBSD for as far back as I
> > can
> > remember tinkering with the system, and it would not surprise me a whole lot
> > if the naming was decided back in the CSRG days or possibly even earlier.
>
> Because I was curious, and Brian Conway had replied that this dated
> back to the very first commit of OpenBSD in Oct. 1995 [1], when it was
> forked from NetBSD, I went looking through the NetBSD history.
> Evidently support for /etc/my{name,gate} and /etc/hostname.* was added
> in Apr. 1993, just before the release of NetBSD 0.8 [2].
/etc/hostname.* was in SunOS before then
https://archive.org/details/Sun_800-3805-10_SystemNetworkAdministrationRevA_27Mar90/page/370/mode/2up
>
> If I'm reading the diff correctly, it looks like prior to this, you
> had to edit your hostname directly into /etc/netstart and set the
> netmask in /etc/networks! And it also just attempted to configure all
> known interface types with this information and hope that one
> succeeded, e.g.
> ifconfig we0 inet $hostname netmask my-netmask
> ifconfig ne0 inet $hostname netmask my-netmask
> etc.
>
>
> -Andrew
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/df930be708d50e9715f173caa26ffe1b7599b157/etc/netstart#L29
> [2]
> https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/80e5f01ba42eb7e7bc57b9dfe71a889ab11f995c
>
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