Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:09:50 -0400 From: Sean Cavanaugh <millenia2000@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: My unqualified host name Message-ID: <BAY126-W35888B2856FC515F090303CA440@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <48db2995.BviIO9/dPuPT8Lza%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <119697.2728.qm@web30808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <2A271C1D-8157-41B3-A2B1-EF57ECFD81FE@mac.com> <48d9ca8c.RZOeanRudui/84j4%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <18650.20577.490303.567389@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <48db2995.BviIO9/dPuPT8Lza%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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> Dunno about the OP=2C but my FreeBSD machines do not have nor need > valid FQDNs because they sit behind a NAT firewall (and therefore > do not have externally-identifiable IP addresses). I want hostname > to simply return the unqualified host name (say=2C foo)=2C not foo.com > nor foo.uucp nor even foo.bogus. I don't need sendmail to handle > anything but purely local traffic=2C such as the periodic reports to > root=2C and it's just fine for it to identify itself simply as foo. > We were able to do things like this back in the days of SunOS 4=2C so > why should it be difficult to accomplish today? Indeed=2C why should > it not be the default mode of operation when hostname returns an > unqualified name? =20 =20 Common practice to handle naming was to use "computer.network.TLD" such as = "workstation1.freebsd.org" for the internet facing side of your network. In= ternal=2C if you were not running a split-horizon DNS setup would be to use= "network.local" or simply "local" for the effect of "workstation1.freebsd.= local" or "workstation1.local". therefore if for some strange reason it eve= r did get the FQDN outside the local network=2C nothing would be able to re= solve it to make it an issue since there is no TLD of .Local on the interne= t but could easily be added to an internal DNS server for personal use. =20 -Sean=20
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