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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Hostname for box w/ part time internet connection
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:28:44 +0100
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In article <33C021EA.1298E996@auburn.campus.mci.net>,
Anthony Jenkins <ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net> writes:
> Thanks for all the suggestions... I understand my problem a lot more
> now, but I think I left a bunch out of my original question. I am
> running FreeBSD 2.2.1 on a single machine which dials into a PPP ISP who
> allocates me an address dynamically. In /etc/sysconfig I have the line
> hostname=auburn.campus.mci.net
[.....]
See my other posting on this thread. Feedback (how you got on) is
always good ;-)
> Thanks in advance,
> Anthony Jenkins
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !