From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 2 17: 4:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (brisba6.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.66.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A8737BA3F for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 17:04:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17358; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:04:34 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdt17353; Sat Jun 3 10:04:27 2000 Message-ID: <032301bfccef$6555e000$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "leegold" , References: <000901bfccec$447d3e30$79e17ad1@leegold1> Subject: Re: domain names Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:05:12 +1000 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 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 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. 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