From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GDiLS-00033y-VJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:55:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7HDqjVf008913; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:52:45 GMT Received: from SMTP02.INFOAVE.NET (smtp02.infoave.net [165.166.0.27]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7HDnC04013399 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:49:12 GMT Received: from [208.34.232.181] by smtp.hostserver (PMDF V6.2-X31 #31343) with ESMTP id <01M63EOQCQUI8WWQKV@smtp.hostserver> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:48:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:48:40 -0400 From: Phil Sexton Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname In-reply-to: <20060817141422.37291b46@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <44E473B8.5000802@infoave.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) References: <44E37755.5010800@gt.rr.com> <44E37A3B.4060903@comcast.net> <44E39107.5050609@gt.rr.com> <44E3AEB8.3080608@infoave.net> <44E3BAD4.1030802@gt.rr.com> <44E3C477.1050809@infoave.net> <44E3FA58.7060405@mid.email-server.info> <44E4008E.80600@infoave.net> <44E4063E.4020501@mid.email-server.info> <44E40C9D.5020106@infoave.net> <44E4281E.5050808@mid.email-server.info> <44E4646D.2020700@infoave.net> <44E46879.7080608@infoave.net> <20060817141422.37291b46@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 2fd8beca-7cbe-48eb-932c-533de51be08d X-Archives-Hash: 846e025b01b02e3ae84be4bf2c3c20ad Neil Bothwick wrote: > Because your domain name may change while your hostname stays the same, > or vice versa. Think of a laptop connected at various locations. Locking > the two together in one config file works against this. Aha! I don't have anything mobile, just my home box and the ones under construction. I use a portable usb drive for my mobile data needs. -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list