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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: setting up for network Date: 14 Oct 1996 22:23:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <53uehj$85v@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3261bff9.6651836@news.together.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E chroma@together.net (Scott I. Remick) wrote: > internet? Only one interface card, one IP address for the server. I > *would* like it come up as mydomain.com, www.mydomain.com, and > ftp.mydomain.com and am not sure how to set that up in all this. The > FreeBSD system doesn't need to do any routing (I wouldn't think) as > the router is handling all that. Most of this aliasing stuff is normally done by DNS CNAME's, thus no matter of your FreeBSD machine. Just name it `somename.mydomain.com', and get the remainder in the DNS setup. There's just one thing where you should teach your machine about its aliases though: the Cw entries in the sendmail configuration file. I suggest you getting a good book about administering an Internet server. I think O'Reilly publishes one that would be suited, but i don't have the name handy. It covers the basic things for all the usual services like DNS, sendmail etc. (Probably ``Managing TCP/IP'', but i'm not sure.) Sorry, Usenet cannot replace a 200-page book. The possible consequences of making mistakes in a nameserver or mailer setup are too dangerous for the Internet community to even try such a crash course here. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)