From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 06:05:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA3437B401 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1a-215.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.170.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A39743FE1 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:05:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h3UD5K0n005137; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:05:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3EAFCA1B.40500@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:05:31 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: inbox References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030429225039.00a000e0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030429225039.00a000e0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Esoteric network setup question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:05:25 -0000 inbox wrote: > I have a hopefully not silly question; > > When I'm setting up my network, does it matter if I give the domain a > TLD or not? Say I call my home network "myzoo". I don't ever plan on > registering "myzoo.org" as a domain, and I don't ever plan on connecting > to my home network from the outside (TOS of my ISP forbids servers > anyways). Should I call it "myzoo.org" or just "myzoo" in the network > configuration dialog or does it matter? Do any programs expect a TLD > for the local domain? The only reason I ask is every example in every > book I've seen has a TLD in the domain name, usually .com. I don't know of anything that would cause you to _need_ the TLD in the domain name. You can probably get away without it. Hell, I've run machines with _no_ hostname with success (although apps seem to be getting fussier about that and it doesn't seem to work any more). -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com