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From: thimm@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: standalone PC and hostid
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 15:55:46 GMT
Organization: FU Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
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Hello,

what hostid should a standalone PC have? sysctl gives me 0 for the
hostid, in hosts there is a hostid different from 0 for my hostname.
What is the correct configuration? (BTW the system is not installed from
scratch, but from another freebsd box, so some configs may be wrong, but
I wouldn't know which).

Please email me, if possible.

Many thanks, Axel.