From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 31 01:04:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 002BF16A419 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:04:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B344A13C46C for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:04:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l7V13vn8093073; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:03:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070830200308.025c44b8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:03:45 -0500 To: L Goodwin , Peter Pluta , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <345524.16634.qm@web58114.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20070830193905.02622e88@mail.computinginnovations.com> <345524.16634.qm@web58114.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:04:45 -0000 At 07:55 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: >--- Derek Ragona >wrote: > > > At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: > > > > >--- Derek Ragona > > >wrote: > > > > > > > At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: > > > > >I and most of my clients who have hosted web > > sites > > > > >have just the one domain name. Does it make > > sense > > > > to > > > > >use the same domain name that your hosted web > > site > > > > >uses for your LAN? > > > > > > > > Sure does, no reason not to. The only issue may > > be > > > > having unique machine > > > > names, but that shouldn't really be too tough. > > > > > >Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN > > the > > >same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail > > server > > >and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname > > >for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are > > >"mail..com" and "ftp..com", > > so > > >I guess I would not want to use these. > > > > Correct, only use host names that are unique. Most > > use some names that > > help identify the machine by the dept, user, etc. > >Thanks for clearing that up, Derek. It's hard to know >something until you actually _know_ it! :-) It gets easier with experience. Doesn't hurt if you do some DNS setups too. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.