[olug] noob question

[Jay Swackhamer]

The name isnt broadcast, it is resolved by a Name Server.

You need to register mydomain.com(at somewher like godaddy.com), and setup
a domain name server to pointmycompname.mydomain.com at your external
xx.xx.xx.xx address, i.e

i.e.
home.mydomain.com = 68.96.22.157

I can do this, or
maybe someone on this list can point you at a free dynamic DNS service?


> I'm not a noob but this is a total noob question.
>
> You know in Windows you can easily change your computer name (basically
> what it shows up as on a network)?  How do you do that with Linux (SuSE
> 9.2 to be exact)?
>
> Maybe that's not what I really want to ask.  So, here's another one.  At
> school if I want to ssh into a machine, I type the server name.  Java
> class was java.ist.unomaha.edu.  I know the machine is local but if I
> type that either inside or outside the network, I get where I want to
> go.  Currently, when I want to ssh into my server, inside my network I
> use 192.168.1.103 and outside I use xx.xx.xx.xx (different from inside).
> How do I set the name on my machine so it is broadcast?
>
> To make a question really long, I want to type mycompname.mydomain.com
> from ANYWHERE and get to my server.
>
> So, how do I do that?
>
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