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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: standalone PC and hostid
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 11:36:35 -0700
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Axel Thimm wrote:
] what hostid should a standalone PC have? sysctl gives me 0 for
] the hostid, in hosts there is a hostid different from 0 for
] my hostname.
] What is the correct configuration? (BTW the system is not
] installed from scratch, but from another freebsd box, so some
] configs may be wrong, but I wouldn't know which).
I believe the hostid is derived from the IP address. This makes
sense, since it is generally only used in a networking environment
for things like floating license managers.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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