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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!cliffs.rs.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Choosing a Host name Date: 27 Dec 1996 14:16:57 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5a0lop$9bc@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <59vihe$a2b@decius.ultra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.136 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33354 In article <59vihe$a2b@decius.ultra.net>, kbranco@ma.ultranet.com (kenny) writes: > If my only link to the Internet is a dynamic PPP dial-up, how important > is the issue of choosing a host name? Probably not very. Of course, you wouldn't want to use "microsoft" or something (or maybe you would?). :-) It would be wise, though, to have your hostname use the same domain as your ISP (and make sure that it doesn't conflict with any existing names within their domain). For example, when I setup FreeBSD, I chose the name "dolphin" for my machine (fully qualified: dolphin.neosoft.com). In reality, this "site" does not exist (I'm on a dynamic dialup account, too). Any attempts to finger/mail/etc. to it will fail. The thing you have to be careful of is From and Reply-to addresses in mail, news, etc. Fortunately, I can simply use conrads@neosoft.com, and my ISP takes care of forwarding my mail to the proper server. Your mileage may vary, of course. If your ISP is *really* nice, perhaps they'd be willing to setup a forward from your pseudo-sitename to your correct e-mail and a route to your (current, for each session) IP address. Or they might tell you to get real and get a fixed IP account. :-) -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |