Re: leafnode

[Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com>]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:49:43 -0700
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:

> > Leafnode must have a fully-qualified and globally unique domain name,
> > not just "infinity". Edit your /etc/hosts file to add a unique, fully
> > qualified domain name. "localhost.localdomain" or thereabouts will not
> > work; it's qualified, but not unique. 
> 
> > My problem is I don't know what to put in /etc/hosts.  At the moment I
> > have:
> > 127.0.0.1	infinity	localhost
> 
> Have another line with your IP, and an FQDN.
> 
> 192.168.0.4	ursine	ursine.dyndns.org

Thanks.  But my problem is that my IP and FQDN are dynamically assigned by
my IP.  Changes are at frequent enough intervals to make it irritating to
have to keep editing /etc/hosts by hand.

- Richard