Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:05:12 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "leegold" <leegold@erols.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: domain names Message-ID: <032301bfccef$6555e000$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> References: <000901bfccec$447d3e30$79e17ad1@leegold1>
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> this is a newbie questions of vast proportions: i managed to get FBSD > installed. Well thats a significant leap forward :) > > 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". Obviously the person who wrote that assumed that anyone installing via network would have a domain name of some sort, however without having done an install that way I guess it wouldn't matter as long as the two machines could see each other on the network. It sounds like its worked anyway so I'll try that myself someday. I would have thought the FQDN was only relevant with an FTP install ..... like from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org, although it is possible to have a domain without being online. > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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