Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 09:15:03 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp Message-ID: <4F926C87.4060505@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <A4C2A0D1-077F-4E92-A5C9-3FB06A0C313E@mac.com> References: <4F91BBCA.5050207@onetel.com> <A4C2A0D1-077F-4E92-A5C9-3FB06A0C313E@mac.com>
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On 20/04/2012 20:56, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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, Thanks Chuck, I went with .lan. cheers Chris
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