From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 2 16:42: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE24B37B65B for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:41:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leegold@erols.com) Received: from 209-122-225-121.s121.tnt1.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([209.122.225.121] helo=leegold1) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 12y14f-0003rd-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 19:41:58 -0400 Message-ID: <000901bfccec$447d3e30$79e17ad1@leegold1> From: "leegold" To: Subject: domain names Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 19:42:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org this is a newbie questions of vast proportions: i managed to get FBSD installed. Let me start off by asking about the network setup via the sysinstall program. FSBD recognized my nic card, For "host name" i put in ham_on_rye. but i was at a loss to know what to put in for "domain name". BUT WHAT IT IS IS TWO PC'S HOOKED TOGETHER VIA ETHERNET - NOTHING ELSE. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN RE; A FULLY QUALIFIED DOMAIN NAME? [ sorry for yelling. ] there's more to this but let's defer additional complications right now. BTW, i did enter some ip addresses into the two boxes and i can ping and telnet between them just fine. Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message