RE: cannot understand name "peter.first.try"

2004-07-23 Thread fbsd_user
Your question is really asked incorrectly. What you are really asking about is what is the proper value to use in the rc.conf hostname= statement. Assigning a Host name to your FBSD system Your FBSD operating system has internal software applications (like sendmail for one) that needs to know the

Re: cannot understand name "peter.first.try"

2004-07-23 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Friday 23 July 2004 11:58, Peter Ryan wrote: > Hi, > This is probably a contender for the dumbest question > of the year. I wouldn't exectly call your question dump; but it is not very explicit. > > When I defined my IP address in the freeBSD installation, > I had to give a name. All the exampl