Greetings,
I spent time this weekend experimenting with, and learning about,
configuring my Plan9 machine as a simple,
DHCP client, terminal. Networking now seems to work reliably: DNS is
resolving names, I can ping machines
locally and across the internet by both name and IP address. I can also
connect to sources at bell labs and
browse them. Timezone has been set and I even created another user though I
am not yet happy with the
results so have more to learn in that area.
Now, I want to set the machine's name. From the Plan9 Wiki and searching
through the 9fans archives I now know:
1) Editing /rc/bin/termrc to replace the default name, gnot, with
my machine's name is "not the right way".
2) A post from earlier this year just said to edit /lib/ndb/local
and that there were plenty of examples.
In reality, the only examples are for machines with static IP
addresses.
3) A post from 2007 said to add an entry to /lib/ndb/local of the
form:
sys=<machinename> ether=<MACaddress>
Replacing <machinename> with the desired name of my machine and
replacing <MACaddress>
with that machine's MAC address. This works fine, but it could
get a bit unwieldy for configuring large
numbers of machines.
4) Another post said to just
echo -n <machinename> > /dev/sysname
in /rc/bin/termrc.local. I tested it and it also works fine and
seems to be the easiest.
My question is: What is the REAL preferred method for setting the machine
name? #1, #3, #4, or something else?
Thank you,
Daryl M
