Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:20:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: allen campbell <allenc@verinet.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No FQDN Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219151846.658H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802190607.XAA00465@const>
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Ah, much better, the first message was badly spaced. :) On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, allen campbell wrote: > I am attempting to configure FreeBSD 2.2.5 for operation without > a FQDN. I would like to know if this is realistic. Should be, assuming you won't be connected to the wide Internet. You can use fake names just fine, just stick them in /etc/hosts and set /etc/host.conf to do `hosts' before `bind'. > I do not have a domain name and I don't want to fake one, as I don't > believe this is wise. Why not? It's not visible by anyone but yourself, and you can always use a Reply-To: line in your mails to make sure they go to the correct place. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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