RE: Setting hostname - fake and real
-Original Message- From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setting hostname - fake and real To: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure I understand why you would want to use fake dns names. I don't especially want to use a fake name, I just don't have a real one to use... the machine I'm talking about is my home machine with dynamic IP Why not simply add an entry to /etc/hosts? Like I do to get a pretty name for logins from my XP machine: 192.168.0.6my-xp-machine.org - Mark Ok, what IP do I put? My dynamic IP in the real world (which is pretty static in practice), or something else? The address you've used in your example looks like my vmnet addresses. Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting hostname - fake and real
Ben Paley wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setting hostname - fake and real To: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure I understand why you would want to use fake dns names. I don't especially want to use a fake name, I just don't have a real one to use... the machine I'm talking about is my home machine with dynamic IP Why not simply add an entry to /etc/hosts? Like I do to get a pretty name for logins from my XP machine: 192.168.0.6my-xp-machine.org - Mark Ok, what IP do I put? My dynamic IP in the real world (which is pretty static in practice), or something else? The address you've used in your example looks like my vmnet addresses. Cheers, Ben You can simply use 127.0.0.1 in there. 127.0.0.1 localhost my-xp-machine.org Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting hostname - fake and real
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:03, Chris Hodgins wrote: You can simply use 127.0.0.1 in there. 127.0.0.1 localhost my-xp-machine.org I'll give that a go next! Cheers, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting hostname - fake and real
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:09:19 + Ben Paley [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Hello, Is there an easy way to set a fake hostname in rc.conf which will let sendmail send mail to external domains? For ages I've had the line in rc.conf hostname=potato.fake_domain.net (not exactly, but you see what I mean...) and I've had no problems with it at all. Recently I've tried to set up sendmail, only so I can test php or perl scripts that send emails! Sending to localhost works fine, but mail to an external address is returned by the remote domain because it couldn't verify my domain. Very sensible, I could be a spammer. So I edited rc.conf to say hostname=potato.real_domain.net that is, I used the name of a real domain which is registered to me. The domain is hosted on the net, but AFAIK they don't have a machine called potato. Now apache won't start and I get weird errors in other things, like shutting down X even! Can anyone help? Thanks very much, Ben Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure I understand why you would want to use fake dns names. It won't really work properly and if testing scripts that send mail is the goal then a FQDN is probably a good idea. Do you control the DNS for your 'real' domain? If so add your host potato and if possible get a reverse DNS entry to match. For apache and X edit /etc/hosts and put the real information there and your problems should go away. HTH LukeK -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting hostname - fake and real
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure I understand why you would want to use fake dns names. I don't especially want to use a fake name, I just don't have a real one to use... the machine I'm talking about is my home machine with dynamic IP - I know there are ways round this, but it hardly seems worth registering a domain for this machine when it's off more than half the time anyway! It won't really work properly and if testing scripts that send mail is the goal then a FQDN is probably a good idea. Do you control the DNS for your 'real' domain? It's hosted commercially. In practice I might be able to get the tech people there to do me a favour, but then again I've got this dynamic IP If so add your host potato and if possible get a reverse DNS entry to match. For apache and X edit /etc/hosts and put the real information there and your problems should go away. Thanks a lot, I'll give this a go. thinks/etc/hosts, of course, what a fool I am!/thinks If it doesn't work then maybe I'll find myself going down the route of registering another domain! Thanks again, Ben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Setting hostname - fake and real
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Paley Sent: woensdag 9 maart 2005 9:41 To: Luke Kearney Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Setting hostname - fake and real On Wednesday 09 March 2005 08:20, Luke Kearney wrote: Hello Ben Sounds like you might need some DNS magic here. I am not entirely sure I understand why you would want to use fake dns names. I don't especially want to use a fake name, I just don't have a real one to use... the machine I'm talking about is my home machine with dynamic IP Why not simply add an entry to /etc/hosts? Like I do to get a pretty name for logins from my XP machine: 192.168.0.6my-xp-machine.org - Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
