What hostname should I set?

Yuri Grebenkin rainbreath at hotpop.com
Sat Jan 31 15:16:28 PST 2004


Hi. I am a full time FreeBSD user at home and all I need from networking 
is dialup via modem to my ISP. I get my IP dynamically and thus it may 
vary from call to call. I have migrated to FreeBSD from RH Linux some time 
ago. RH installation procedure sets hostname and domain as 'localhost' and 
'localdomain'. Under FreeBSD there is no default value of hostname. So 
I've tryed to set it to something like 'me_at_home' or didn't touch it at 
all. In last case there was some troubles, but they were not critical.

So... I wonder what hostname an average user at home should set?

I use 4.9-RELEASE.

Thank you!

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Yuri



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