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#! rnews 1891 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!platinum.sge.net!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!206.172.150.11!news1.bellglobal.com!bellglobal.com!not-for-mail From: "Kurt Schafer" <kschafer@cyberbeach.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hostname for box w/ part time internet connection Date: 28 Jun 1997 09:47:00 GMT Organization: Bell Network Solutions Lines: 23 Message-ID: <01bc83a8$8d7ff950$0daf65cc@reality> References: <33B462A3.C9A68B9C@auburn.campus.mci.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.101.175.13 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43685 Assuming your ISP assigns you a different IP number every time you connect, there's nothing really stopping you from calling the machine whatever you want. Of course, if your ISP assigns you the SAME IP every time you call there's nothing stopping you from calling the machine whatever you want either. :) But in that case you'd probably want to match your hostname to the value returned by an NSLOOKUP of the IP number. - Kurt Anthony Jenkins <ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net> wrote in article <33B462A3.C9A68B9C@auburn.campus.mci.net>... > What do I set as the host name for my machine, which occasionally > dials-up a connection to the internet? Do I use the domain name of my > ISP, or would that be naughty? I have a single PC running FreeBSD > (Win95 on another partition), no network (though I soon hope to delve > into the wonderful, hair-pulling world of small network admin. when I > get another box), and dial-up PPP access to the internet. > > Thanks in advance, > Anthony >