Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-08 Thread Lloyd Hayes
I know, and I agree. Right now, I am thinking that the next time that I have to upgrade hardware, it will have to be a MAC. Lloyd Hayes Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://TalkingStaff.bravehost.com E-FAX Number: (208) 248-6590 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi. This is sent OFF LIST If

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:49:13PM -0700, Lloyd Hayes wrote: [ Hostname changes when going on-line from different locations ] don't worry about it. With XFree86, it is an issue. It appears that Xorg won't configure correctly without it. Although I won't swear that's the problem with

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: don't worry about it. With XFree86, it is an issue. It appears that Xorg won't configure correctly without it. Although I won't swear that's the problem with Xorg. If you describe the actual symptoms you're seeing, someone might be able to help.

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Thanks for the reply. I liked what you said, and it pretty much sums up what I've seen all across the UNIX world. BSD and Linux seem to be geared towards permanent locations and for regular repeated types of projects. Mobility seems to a available, but on a very limited scale. However, there

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: don't worry about it. With XFree86, it is an issue. It appears that Xorg won't configure correctly without it. Although I won't swear that's the problem with Xorg. If you describe the actual symptoms you're seeing, someone might

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:58:24AM -0700, Lloyd Hayes wrote: If I read your answer right, I can put any name in here like traveler2.hayes.org, and as long as it's connecting to the Internet and it's not a server connected from the Internet, it should be OK. Right? Well, if this is your

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:29:23PM -0700, Lloyd Hayes wrote: Xorg is a problem which seems to come under the heading of New Technology. I'll stick with XFree86. Xorg is now off of this computer. X.org and XFree86 are almost identical right now. Apart from a few small details (eg. the

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-07 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Ouch! % host traveler2.hayes.org traveler2.hayes.org has address 64.15.175.5 ssh(1) will throw screaming hissy-fits. While the hayes has been popular with computers for almost 30 years, I was sort of hoping that it would not make a difference on my personal computer. Having an email

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Naming the computer host? I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different location. Yet FBSD seems to want a permanent assignment which I would normally get from my

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-06 Thread Lloyd Hayes
don't worry about it. With XFree86, it is an issue. It appears that Xorg won't configure correctly without it. Although I won't swear that's the problem with Xorg. Unless you're trying to have someone outside reach your machine (as opposed to vice versa), you might as well just use whatever

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-05 Thread Dick Davies
* Lloyd Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1109 16:09]: Here's a new thread. Naming the computer host? I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different location. Yet FBSD seems to want a permanent assignment which I

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-05 Thread Lloyd Hayes
It doesn't matter what name you give the machine. Just add that name to /etc/hosts as the loop back address' lookup name. I refer to this computer as traveler2. It is the 2nd laptop that I had purchased. Everything before had been desktops. I have traveler2 and traveler4 in the truck with me.

Naming confusion

2004-11-04 Thread Lloyd Hayes
Here's a new thread. Naming the computer host? I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different location. Yet FBSD seems to want a permanent assignment which I would normally get from my ISP. I don't have a

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
Here's a new thread. Naming the computer host? I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different location. Yet FBSD seems to want a permanent assignment which I would normally get from my ISP. I don't

Re: Naming confusion

2004-11-04 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lloyd Hayes wrote: | Here's a new thread. | Naming the computer host? | | I'm confused by this. As I understand it, I get a different DNS | assignment every time that I hook into the Internet from a different | location. Yet FBSD seems to want a