Re: What hostname do you use on your computer?

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Knute Johnson wrote:
> Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:
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>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:
>>>> Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>>> If I set my computer to localhost.localdomain then I can relay
>>>>> mail just fine.  What do you do if you don't have a fixed IP?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>> hang on....frazmtn.com links to Frazier Mountain Internet Service
>>>> is this you or your ISP?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> frazmtn.com is my ISP.  I have a couple if fixed IPs, one of which is
>>> hosted as sagebrush.frazmtn.com.
>>>
>>
>> have you thought of having an internal dns setup? For the relaying to
>> work you'd need to have a dns record for the workstation and at the
>> moment this machine is not 'resolvable'.
>> Why don't you just give a hostname that is not a fqdn if you don't run a
>> DNS server?
>>
>> - --
>> (o<    Thierry Sayegh De Bellis, RHCE
> 
> OK, so if I just set the hostname to 'knute' then what do I want in my
> hosts file, /etc/hosts file and in my /etc/sysconfig/network files?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
assuming the machine has a static IP (on your LAN)
/etc/hosts looks like
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
<your IP> 	knute


/etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=knute

hth

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