RE: setting host name during install?

-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting host name during install? Hi, Thanks for the info. I reversed what I had done and then used sysinstall. Going through sysinstall let me enter beastie.gv.shawcable.net as my host name. However when I try the following two url's i get and unknown host. http

Re: setting host name during install?

For changing hostname (and/or IP), I found that the best way is to use sysinstall and change it from there (Configure -- Networking -- Interfaces -- your NIC), since that one will change not only rc.conf file, but also the hosts file (so that your browser can actually resolve name beastie in the

Re: setting host name during install?

Hi, Thanks for the info. I reversed what I had done and then used sysinstall. Going through sysinstall let me enter beastie.gv.shawcable.net as my host name. However when I try the following two url's i get and unknown host. http://beastie:3000/ http://beastie.gv.shawcable.net:3000/ Any other

Re: setting host name during install?

Why are you using port 3000? Are you sure that there is a process running on your machine that is listening on that port? In other words, when you mentioned http://192.168.0.103:3000;, was that something that was (and hopefully still is) working on your machine or you just used that URL to let us