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 resolv-
     able, 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 contains the address of the gateway host, if it exists.  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 should contain a single line specifying the gateway ad-
     dress, in dotted quad notation (e.g. 192.0.2.0).  /etc/mygate is pro-
     cessed after all interfaces have been configured.  It will therefore
     override any DHCP-supplied default route information.

     Neither file may contain comments.

FILES
     /etc/myname  Default hostname.
     /etc/mygate  Default gateway address.

SEE ALSO
     hostname(1), hosts(5), resolv.conf(5), hostname(7), netstart(8), route(8)

HISTORY
     This manual page first appeared in OpenBSD 3.4.

OpenBSD 3.5                      July 24, 2003                               1
