myname,
mygate —
default hostname and gateway
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.
192.0.2.1) or in colon notation for v6 (e.g. 2001:db8::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 “autoconf” directives, IPv6 entries will be ignored.
Empty lines and lines beginning with ‘#’ in either file are
ignored.
- /etc/myname
- Default hostname.
- /etc/mygate
- Default gateway address(es).
hostname(1),
hostname.if(5),
hosts(5),
resolv.conf(5),
hostname(7),
netstart(8),
route(8)
This manual page first appeared in
OpenBSD 3.4.
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