Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 20:43:22 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: leegold <leegold@erols.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: domain names Message-ID: <39387EDA.555E1FB2@gorean.org> References: <000901bfccec$447d3e30$79e17ad1@leegold1> <39384C5B.9DE16CB9@acuson.com>
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David Johnson wrote:
>
> leegold wrote:
>
> > 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".
>
> If this is your own private little network, name it whatever you want.
Well, don't name it _whatever_ you want... It's not a good idea to name
it anything with a real domain name. No matter how often people say that
this machine will never be connected to the internet, inevitably they
are. :) Much better to give it a name like ham-on-rye.local.
Other than using a fake domain name, you should obey the conventions
for real hostnames, otherwise some of the freebsd and third party
software will act in unpredictable ways. That means that the only
characters in your domain name should be a-z, 0-9 and the - (dash).
Also, make sure that your names for each host are in the /etc/hosts
file, and that the IP's you use are ones from a range that's not used on
the internet. You can find a list of the useful ranges in the comments
in /etc/hosts.
Good luck,
Doug
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