From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 22:13:17 2005 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 45A7B16A4CE for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:13:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D83ED43D3F for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:13:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tomasq@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so505479rng for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:13:16 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=UIGAksvArUhpvgQBIZ/cPnRvnD5VKCaEi5RDXK/mBkrY5BZW/blTJduM8JFp4/AkFsw6eMe6PwowcOrw4h+jUYXjwq5WYZkEny5tZ24z31vx4lvk+HJ3cBmIm2DrEYMo7Yy0lPthx57/M3dPtwhlPJ0YXlnQDjNs4eH7OHCzYeI= Received: by 10.38.12.33 with SMTP id 33mr2107803rnl; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:13:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.71.19 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:13:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9e46c99e05033114133842921e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:13:16 -0500 From: Tomas Quintero To: Jonathan Arnold In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up network X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Tomas Quintero List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:13:17 -0000 Essentially, the host is the 'name of the machine' if you will. So if you want, you can name it betty, or uberserver1. It doesn't matter. For that fact, as far as I really know, nor does the domain matter. However commonly when naming servers and such, they have corresponding names and domains so that they can be labeled and people who need to know, know what these machines do. In short, no, the names do not matter for your internal home network. On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:52:52 -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > Something I've never been able to figure out. When installing a > new machine, and you come to the "Network Configuration" dialog, > what do you put in for the Host: and Domain: if it is a machine > on an internal network (ie., 192.168.1.149)? Does it matter? > Just give it a simple hostname and be done with it? Make something > up? > > -- > Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) > Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: > http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- -Tomas Quintero