Re: [cobalt-users] problems with Qube3 (was Macintosh, AppleShare IP Users)

["Gary Melendez" <gmelendez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Whoops. I already answered that message. But specifically no, what the
> machine considers its network name to be has nothing to do with DNS, and
> the Qube could not possibly care less what the machine thinks its name is.
> (Note that this saves you a lot of grief should Wynona W. Williams on your
> network choose www as her machine's hostname...)
>
> The client machine does use its network hostname (what *it* thinks its
name
> is) to identify itself to programs like sendmail (as in EHLO
> WWW.DOMAIN.COM). However, sendmail knows this can be spoofed and basically
> ignores it for authentication purposes.
>
> DHCP will be fine. Matter of fact, DHCP is the reason I learned from our
> ISP to use generic names like "ip-0-1" rather than "joe" since joe may
have
> a different IP tomorrow.

OK. I understand this as well as your other post. I think I've got it all
now.

[SNIP]

> I think I had that problem with the Qube2. Don't remember (if I did, fixed
> it a long time ago). Those entries are all over my /etc/hosts file anyway,
> since bugs the hell out of me to see billions of log messages saying
> "Unable to get canonical name of..."

Come to think of it, I didn't use the Qube 2 as a gateway. At the time, all
my machines were actually directly connected to the Internet via the router.
:-o

Thanks for the help, Rodolfo. I'll give you a confirmation after I have a
chance to change the hosts file.

Gary