RE: setting host name during install?
First of all you are not the owner of the shawcable.net domain name so you have no control over the DNS server to point beastie.gv.shawcable.net to the ip address which is your pc. Commerisal users have static ip address assigned to them by their ISP. Thay can then purchase register an domain name to point to their static ip address. And in this case that registered domain name would go in the hostname= of rc.conf. This is not your case. So you should follow this Assigning a Host name to your FBSD system Your FBSD operating system has internal software applications (like sendmail for one) that needs to know the fully qualified domain name of the PC it's running on. You do this by adding the option statement hostname= to /etc/rc.conf. This is the format to use. thisPCname.fakeDOMAINname.tld Where thisPCname came be any name you want to identify this particular PC on your LAN. Since the goal of this Installation Guide is to build a FBSD gateway server, the name of this PC should be gateway. Where .fakeDOMAINname can be any name you want as long as it's not a registered domain name on the public Internet (unless of course it's registered to you). Using FBSDyourlastname is a safe fake domain name to use here. So if your name was Tom Jones, you should use fbsdjones. Where .tld can be any of the standard TLD's currently in use. Such as .com or .usa or .info or .cc, but since .com is the most commonly used TLD, I recommend using .com. gateway.fbsdjones.com is a very acceptable fake host name to use. ee /etc/rc.conf and add this option statement to the file: hostname=gateway.fbsdjones.com Save the changed file and reboot your system for your edit changes to take effect. When the reboot stops at the login prompt, the line displayed just above it will now contain your host name you just added to rc.conf. Installer Note: If you have an official registered domain name that you want to use for your email sendmail server, then use that in the hostname= statement. Example, if my registered domain name was cyberman.com then hostname=cyberman.com is what I would code. Now for the hostname to be found on the gateway box you will have to add the hostname you coded to the /etc/hosts file. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Michaux Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 12:17 AM To: SM X; freebsd-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://beastie:3000/ http://beastie.gv.shawcable.net:3000/ Any other ideas? Thanks, Peter On 5/20/06, SM X [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 http request), and potentially resolv.conf (where your name server entries (not in your case, since you are on DHCP, therefore you get the DNS server entries automatically) are stored. Obviously, the remedy in your case is to manually edit the hosts file and assign the appropriate values there. Or you can always just use http://localhost:3000 and that should work. Hope this helps, smx P.S. I would not consider myself an expert, so , if I made any mistakes above, hopefully others will alert us all about those. What I can tell you is that I did try the procedure above several times and it was working for me. On 5/20/06, Peter Michaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, During install, I don't quite understand the host parameter that I supplied for my networking configuration. I used DHPC and most of the parameters were filled in for me Host: Domain: gv.shawcable.net IPv4 Gateway: 192.168.0.1 Name server: 192.168.0.1 IPv4 Address: 192.168.0.103 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Extra options to ifconfig (usually empty): When I pressed tab in the Host box it automatically filled in with .gv.shawcable.net which make sense since I have a cable modem from Shaw in Greater Victoria. But it seems like something should have gone before the first dot. Is there an opportunity here to give my computer a cool name like beastie so I can type things like http://beastie:3000; instead of http://192.168.0.103:3000; ? Or is this host name supposed to be some server at my ISP? I changed the hostname using the following steps but I don't know what I really gained. 1. vi /etc/rc.conf 2. change hostname=.gv.shawcable.net to hostname=beastie 3. restart computer so change becomes reality. 4. now the command prompt says [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I tried http://beastie:3000; I ended up
setting host name during install?
Hi, During install, I don't quite understand the host parameter that I supplied for my networking configuration. I used DHPC and most of the parameters were filled in for me Host: Domain: gv.shawcable.net IPv4 Gateway: 192.168.0.1 Name server: 192.168.0.1 IPv4 Address: 192.168.0.103 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Extra options to ifconfig (usually empty): When I pressed tab in the Host box it automatically filled in with .gv.shawcable.net which make sense since I have a cable modem from Shaw in Greater Victoria. But it seems like something should have gone before the first dot. Is there an opportunity here to give my computer a cool name like beastie so I can type things like http://beastie:3000; instead of http://192.168.0.103:3000; ? Or is this host name supposed to be some server at my ISP? I changed the hostname using the following steps but I don't know what I really gained. 1. vi /etc/rc.conf 2. change hostname=.gv.shawcable.net to hostname=beastie 3. restart computer so change becomes reality. 4. now the command prompt says [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I tried http://beastie:3000; I ended up at the Beastie Boys website. Not the worst suprise but not what I was hoping for. Thanks, Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 http request), and potentially resolv.conf (where your name server entries (not in your case, since you are on DHCP, therefore you get the DNS server entries automatically) are stored. Obviously, the remedy in your case is to manually edit the hosts file and assign the appropriate values there. Or you can always just use http://localhost:3000 and that should work. Hope this helps, smx P.S. I would not consider myself an expert, so , if I made any mistakes above, hopefully others will alert us all about those. What I can tell you is that I did try the procedure above several times and it was working for me. On 5/20/06, Peter Michaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, During install, I don't quite understand the host parameter that I supplied for my networking configuration. I used DHPC and most of the parameters were filled in for me Host: Domain: gv.shawcable.net IPv4 Gateway: 192.168.0.1 Name server: 192.168.0.1 IPv4 Address: 192.168.0.103 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Extra options to ifconfig (usually empty): When I pressed tab in the Host box it automatically filled in with .gv.shawcable.net which make sense since I have a cable modem from Shaw in Greater Victoria. But it seems like something should have gone before the first dot. Is there an opportunity here to give my computer a cool name like beastie so I can type things like http://beastie:3000; instead of http://192.168.0.103:3000; ? Or is this host name supposed to be some server at my ISP? I changed the hostname using the following steps but I don't know what I really gained. 1. vi /etc/rc.conf 2. change hostname=.gv.shawcable.net to hostname=beastie 3. restart computer so change becomes reality. 4. now the command prompt says [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I tried http://beastie:3000; I ended up at the Beastie Boys website. Not the worst suprise but not what I was hoping for. Thanks, Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ideas? Thanks, Peter On 5/20/06, SM X [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 http request), and potentially resolv.conf (where your name server entries (not in your case, since you are on DHCP, therefore you get the DNS server entries automatically) are stored. Obviously, the remedy in your case is to manually edit the hosts file and assign the appropriate values there. Or you can always just use http://localhost:3000 and that should work. Hope this helps, smx P.S. I would not consider myself an expert, so , if I made any mistakes above, hopefully others will alert us all about those. What I can tell you is that I did try the procedure above several times and it was working for me. On 5/20/06, Peter Michaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, During install, I don't quite understand the host parameter that I supplied for my networking configuration. I used DHPC and most of the parameters were filled in for me Host: Domain: gv.shawcable.net IPv4 Gateway: 192.168.0.1 Name server: 192.168.0.1 IPv4 Address: 192.168.0.103 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Extra options to ifconfig (usually empty): When I pressed tab in the Host box it automatically filled in with .gv.shawcable.net which make sense since I have a cable modem from Shaw in Greater Victoria. But it seems like something should have gone before the first dot. Is there an opportunity here to give my computer a cool name like beastie so I can type things like http://beastie:3000; instead of http://192.168.0.103:3000; ? Or is this host name supposed to be some server at my ISP? I changed the hostname using the following steps but I don't know what I really gained. 1. vi /etc/rc.conf 2. change hostname=.gv.shawcable.net to hostname=beastie 3. restart computer so change becomes reality. 4. now the command prompt says [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I tried http://beastie:3000; I ended up at the Beastie Boys website. Not the worst suprise but not what I was hoping for. Thanks, Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 know what you are attempting to do? smx On 5/20/06, Peter Michaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 ideas? Thanks, Peter On 5/20/06, SM X [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 http request), and potentially resolv.conf (where your name server entries (not in your case, since you are on DHCP, therefore you get the DNS server entries automatically) are stored. Obviously, the remedy in your case is to manually edit the hosts file and assign the appropriate values there. Or you can always just use http://localhost:3000 and that should work. Hope this helps, smx P.S. I would not consider myself an expert, so , if I made any mistakes above, hopefully others will alert us all about those. What I can tell you is that I did try the procedure above several times and it was working for me. On 5/20/06, Peter Michaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, During install, I don't quite understand the host parameter that I supplied for my networking configuration. I used DHPC and most of the parameters were filled in for me Host: Domain: gv.shawcable.net IPv4 Gateway: 192.168.0.1 Name server: 192.168.0.1 IPv4 Address: 192.168.0.103 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Extra options to ifconfig (usually empty): When I pressed tab in the Host box it automatically filled in with .gv.shawcable.net which make sense since I have a cable modem from Shaw in Greater Victoria. But it seems like something should have gone before the first dot. Is there an opportunity here to give my computer a cool name like beastie so I can type things like http://beastie:3000; instead of http://192.168.0.103:3000; ? Or is this host name supposed to be some server at my ISP? I changed the hostname using the following steps but I don't know what I really gained. 1. vi /etc/rc.conf 2. change hostname=.gv.shawcable.net to hostname=beastie 3. restart computer so change becomes reality. 4. now the command prompt says [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I tried http://beastie:3000; I ended up at the Beastie Boys website. Not the worst suprise but not what I was hoping for. Thanks, Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
