From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 20 19:56:58 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F821065676 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:56:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from nk11p00mm-asmtp003.mac.com (nk11p00mm-asmtp003.mac.com [17.158.161.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29FE48FC28 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:56:58 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (unknown [17.209.4.71]) by nk11p00mm-asmtp003.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01(7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTPSA id <0M2S00KLLNEWVD70@nk11p00mm-asmtp003.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:56:57 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.6.7580,1.0.260,0.0.0000 definitions=2012-04-20_06:2012-04-20, 2012-04-20, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1204200233 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4F91BBCA.5050207@onetel.com> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:56:56 -0700 Message-id: References: <4F91BBCA.5050207@onetel.com> To: Chris Whitehouse X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:56:58 -0000 On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of installing FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a domain name. Also setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is domain name. What do you do if you don't have your own domain? There have been a few domains which are permanently reserved and will never be assigned elsewhere: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt You can reasonably claim to be part of your ISP's domain, if you prefer. .lan might be reasonable, or .local, although the latter might conflict with Bonjour/Zeroconf. > I've never supplied a domain name when installing FreeBSD and it doesn't seem to have been a problem. I'm just setting up dhcp for the first time and I don't know if it matters here. It's mainly used to setup the default search domain which clients use to find local unqualified hosts. Regards, -- -Chuck