From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 13:39:33 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 386D616A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [12.15.124.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3558943D31 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:39:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from 192.168.2.137 (unknown [12.15.124.131]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC5ED6104; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:39:25 -0600 (CST) From: Chris To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:39:17 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040122193236.GA55754@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200401222231.01398.freebsd-questions@webteckies.org> In-Reply-To: <200401222231.01398.freebsd-questions@webteckies.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401221539.24964.racerx@makeworld.com> cc: Jonathon McKitrick 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 21:39:33 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 January 2004 03:31 pm, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > On Thursday 22 January 2004 20:32, 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'. > > Andrew gave a good HOW-TO. > In general, you would choose a TLD (the last part of a domainname, like > .org or .net) that does not exist on the internet, so that you never > confuse it with a real domainname. > > .lan, .home or .here are good candidates. If he's behind some sort of routing device, he can certainly setup a DNS wi= tin=20 his own network. =2D --=20 Best regards, Chris =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAEEMKD5P/gMAbw2MRAvuUAJ9YHF3dH+VPpeDPNTysaVGaoZCVPwCgl6VT QYMOOZgA4cxGgeNUCj5tr4w=3D =3DrTss =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----