From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 11:38:58 2004 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 6241D16A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:38:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EEBB43D3F for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:38:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C61DC13620; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:38:55 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:38:55 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Jonathon McKitrick Message-ID: <20040122193855.GB90949@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20040122193236.GA55754@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040122193236.GA55754@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Domain name for local network? 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: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:38:58 -0000 On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:32:36PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > If I have a couple of boxes in a home network that connects to the Internet > via ppp, is there any way I can name my network? I don't want to register > a name, just use it locally. This way I can refer to 'neptune.jonathon.org' > or something similar rather than '10.0.0.1'. You can name it anything you like. If it were me, I'd set up an internal DNS which is authoritative for the local domain name you've chosen. That way it'll pick up the local machines for the domain-name but still work for non-local domains. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. Twice is coincidence. Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something.