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>3. Prerequisites</A
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> Enough already! How do I set it up?
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> Alright hotrod, we're getting there, but first there's some info
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you need to get, and a couple of explanations.
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> First, you need to get the IP address of your provider, if you don't
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have it already. You can do this by typing 'who' at a shell prompt there,
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or reading their <TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/etc/hosts</TT
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>, or even just asking
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them. While your getting
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that, get the IP address of the POP/SMTP host and the NNTP server (if you
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don't know what those are, trust me and ask for them anyway, you'll need
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'em).
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> Next, let me explain quickly about hostnames and domain names.
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The hostname is the first part of a machines name, the domain is the rest
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of it. Like this: hostname.domain.name (a four parter would be
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hostname.do.main.name). Together, they make a Fully Qualified Domain
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Name (FQDN).
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</P
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> The name of your Linux machine is stored in
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/etc/HOSTNAME</TT
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>, and
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yes, you can change it. In fact, please do (if you're using Slackware,
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it'll be "darkstar.frop.org" by default). Just edit the
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/etc/HOSTNAME</TT
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file to be whatever you want - remember, if you are using an emulator,
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you are essentially invisible to the Net at large, so you can be
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creative. However, if you plan to get a real SLIP/PPP connection down the
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road sometime, you'll probably want to conform to being a sub-host of
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your provider. For example, if your provider is "info.superhiway.com",
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the domain is "superhiway.com" and the hostname is "info". So you could
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either be "offramp.info.superhiway.com" or just "offramp.superhiway.com".
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Either would work, and in either case your hostname is "offramp".
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