HostManager
Local Configuration window
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Use this window to prepare a computer to get its boot information from the network or to specify bootup values to be taken from its own /etc/hostconfig file. You can also restrict the computer to its own Local domain. 

You choose Local... from the HostManager menu to open this window. 
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The Local Configuration panel's text boxes store values for the /etc/hostconfig file, which hard codes the values at boot time.  
Choosing buttons references the NetInfo domains at boot time.

Click Bind to network NetInfo server to 
link the computer to the hierarchy of 
domains in a large network.

Click Use local domain only if you don't 
want the computer to read network files. 

Check Readable only by local net to 
restrict access to the subnet. 
Click Autoconfigure to get an Internet address from NetInfo, or enter a 
particular Internet address as the value of INETADDR in /etc/hostconfig.

Click Default to set the netmask by default, click Automatic to set  
-AUTOMATIC- as the value of IPNETMASK in /etc/hostconfig, or 
enter a specific value for IPNETMASK in /etc/hostconfig. 

Click Default to use the Broadcast Address in NetInfo, or enter a 
specific value to store with IPBROADCAST in /etc/hostconfig. 

Click Use Network Time to get time from the network time server, 
or Ignore Network Time and use the local computer clock. 

Click None to indicate no routing requirements, or click Dynamic 
to specify the -YES- value for ROUTER in /etc/hostconfig, or 
enter a specific router Internet address as the value of ROUTER in 
/etc/hostconfig to direct routing through a particular router. 

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Click Autoconfigure to let the user enter 
a host name at Autoconfigure time, or 
enter a name as the value of HOSTNAME 
in /etc/hostconfig.

Click None to avoid NIS domain searches 
or enter a domain name as the value of 
YPDOMAIN in /etc/hostconfig.