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#1 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:22 AM

Can anyone explain to me what the significance is of the symbolic names
you enter during install?

It looks like it gets added to the /etc/hosts file. But what would you
use this for?

If you have multiple interfaces (firewall configuration) would you have
different symbolic names for each interface?

Thanks!
Brian

#2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:22 AM

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:15:23 -0800, john330 wrote:

> Can anyone explain to me what the significance is of the symbolic names
> you enter during install?

$ man -s 7 hostname

> It looks like it gets added to the /etc/hosts file. But what would you
> use this for?

See above

> If you have multiple interfaces (firewall configuration) would you have
> different symbolic names for each interface?

One can do that.

#3 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:22 AM

> $ man -s 7 hostname

Thanks for the suggestion but that says nothing about what the symbolic
name is for. I'm looking for the difference between setting the
hostname and the symbolic host name and when these two would be
different.

#4 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:22 AM

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:42:17 -0800, john330 wrote:

>> $ man -s 7 hostname
>
> Thanks for the suggestion but that says nothing about what the symbolic
> name is for. I'm looking for the difference between setting the
> hostname and the symbolic host name and when these two would be
> different.

The name asked for during installation *is* the hostname and is found not
only in /etc/hosts but in /etc/myname also.

#5 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:22 AM

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:51:43 -0600, Dave Uhring wrote:

> The name asked for during installation *is* the hostname and is found not
> only in /etc/hosts but in /etc/myname also.

Is there a way to set this via DHCP at boot instead of in a file name?

#6 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:22 AM

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:00:17 -0800, Captain Dondo wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:51:43 -0600, Dave Uhring wrote:
>
>> The name asked for during installation *is* the hostname and is found not
>> only in /etc/hosts but in /etc/myname also.
>
> Is there a way to set this via DHCP at boot instead of in a file name?

I use static addressing but you might look at dhclient.conf(5).

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