From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 2 20:43:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AEBD37B770 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA54580; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39387EDA.555E1FB2@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 20:43:22 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0528 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Johnson Cc: leegold , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: domain names References: <000901bfccec$447d3e30$79e17ad1@leegold1> <39384C5B.9DE16CB9@acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message