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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!worldnet.att.net!news.alt.net!newspost1.alt.net!freud.mec.edu!matt From: matt@mec.edu (Matt Bancroft) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Choosing a Host name Date: 2 Jan 1997 09:47:11 GMT Organization: MEC Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5ag06v$922@tofu.alt.net> References: <59vihe$a2b@decius.ultra.net> <5a0lop$9bc@uuneo.neosoft.com> <kientzleE3DEr4.Knp@netcom.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33435 http://www.nws.net has an interesting sounding service that might help you with some of the dynamic IP problems your running into.... " DynamicDNS This services gives you a permanent address on the internet by making it so a sub-domain of nws.net always points to your current dynamic IP! " kientzle@netcom.com wrote: : In article <5a0lop$9bc@uuneo.neosoft.com>, : Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote: : >In article <59vihe$a2b@decius.ultra.net>, : > kbranco@ma.ultranet.com (kenny) writes: : >> If my only link to the Internet is a dynamic PPP dial-up, how important : >> is the issue of choosing a host name? : > : >The thing you have to be careful of is From and Reply-to addresses in : >mail, news, etc. : I've also encountered this, and I'd like to be able to simply mail : stuff from my FreeBSD system: : Q: Is there an easy way to have ALL mail from my system have : a (fixed) fake From and Reply-To field? It seems that a suitable : sendmail.cfg rule should be able to rewrite those fields, but : I haven't found the magic incantation. If the rewrite could be : varied on a per-user basis, that would be a plus, but by no means : necessary. : - Tim