From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 19 15:21:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12536 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:21:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12483 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:21:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA00709; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:20:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:20:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: allen campbell cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No FQDN In-Reply-To: <199802190607.XAA00465@const> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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