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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!unixhub!news.Stanford.EDU!microunity!usenet From: deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com (Deborah Gronke Bennett) Subject: Re: Changing hostname In-Reply-To: Eli Lazich's message of Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:13:02 -0500 Message-ID: <oq91fxm29v.fsf@gallifrey.microunity.com> Sender: deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <317291AE.883@mcs.com> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:38:20 GMT Lines: 28 In article <317291AE.883@mcs.com> Eli Lazich <elazich@mcs.com> writes: What are all of the considerations in changing a hostname and domain it belongs to? I tried changing /etc/sysconfig and /etc/host.conf but that apparently is not all that is involved. Could someone please let me what is required. Here are all the steps that I know of to change a hostname. Caveat: I've never verified the change-of-domain step, since we only have one here. I've written these as pseudo-VI or grep search regexps. Steps necessary to move a FreeBSD machine to another subnet /etc/sysconfig: /hostname/ change to new name /defaultrouter/ change to router on new subnet /ifconfig_<interface>/ change to new IP address on new subnet /etc/resolv.conf: /domain/ change if changing domain /nameserver/ change to nameserver on new subnet -- ---------- Deborah Gronke Bennett (WD5HJH) kernel and device drivers engineer deborah@microunity.com (408)-734-8100 MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA