Re: Help! What do I call my machine? Hostname etc?

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From: Geoff Cox
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 00:00

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How do you deal with sendmail? I have in mind to try Majordom...!

Geoff

On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 13:32:27 +0100, Paul Black <paul.black@oxsemi.com>
wrote:

>Geoff Cox <geoff.cox@cableinet.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm confused! I have my linux Redhat 6.0 on a LAN with a fixed IP
>> address of 192.168.1.4
>> 
>> I want to connect to the Internet via an ISP which gives me a fixed IP
>> using a dialup connection. I am micro.demon.co.uk on that system.
>> 
>> What do I give my linux box for a hostname and domain name??
>
>At home, I named my machines gammon.local & bacon.local which are
>completely unrelated to my Demon hostname (darwin). The only thing I
>needed to worry about was that sendmail knows to accept mail for my
>Demon hostname.
>
>Paul

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From: Geoff Cox <geoff.cox@cableinet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Help! What do I call my machine? Hostname etc?
Date: 2000/08/07
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