MYNAME(5) OpenBSD Programmer's Manual MYNAME(5)NAME
myname, mygate - default hostname and gateway
SYNOPSIS
/etc/myname
/etc/mygate
DESCRIPTION
The myname and mygate files are read by netstart(8) at system startup
time.
/etc/myname contains the symbolic name of the host machine. The file
should contain a single line specifying the fully qualified domain name
(FQDN) of the system (e.g. host.example.com). The name must be
resolvable, either by matching a hostname specified in /etc/hosts (see
hosts(5)) or through DNS (see resolv.conf(5)). The hostname is set via
the hostname(1) utility at boot time. See hostname(7) for a description
of hostname resolution.
/etc/mygate, if it exists, contains the address of the gateway host. The
gateway is added to the routing tables by the route(8) utility. If
/etc/mygate does not exist, no default gateway is added to the routing
tables. The file may contain gateway addresses for both IPv4 and IPv6
networks: in dotted quad notation for v4 (e.g. 192.0.2.0) or in colon
notation for v6 (e.g. 2001:1234:5678::1). Each address must be specified
on a separate line. If more than one address of a specific family is
found, only the first is used - all other addresses of that family are
ignored.
/etc/mygate is processed after all interfaces have been configured. If
any hostname.if(5) files contain ``dhcp'' directives, IPv4 entries in
/etc/mygate will be ignored. If they contain ``rtsol'' directives, IPv6
entries will be ignored.
Empty lines and lines beginning with `#' in either file are ignored.
FILES
/etc/myname Default hostname.
/etc/mygate Default gateway address(es).
SEE ALSOhostname(1), hostname.if(5), hosts(5), resolv.conf(5), hostname(7),
netstart(8), route(8)HISTORY
This manual page first appeared in OpenBSD 3.4.
OpenBSD 4.9 May 31, 2007 OpenBSD 4.9