> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Schwendt [mailto:rh0210ms@arcor.de] > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:11 PM > To: psyche-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: Hostname help > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:01:43 -0800 (PST), Ryan McDougall wrote: > > > Thank you sosososososo much for replying... Like I said > before please > > excuse my stupidity on this one... But don't I need to own > the domain > > foo.com, or is it because I'm behind this router that it is > safe to do > > whatever I want? > > Depends. Avoid any valid top-level domain and any domain that > doesn't belong to you. It could cause confusion when such a hostname > from your private LAN makes it onto the Internet (for instance, > www.example.net and www.mydomain.com do exist, the domain .home.net, > too). Feel free to use something which does not exist or is unlikely > to be created, e.g. hostname.example, hostname.localdomain, > hostname.intranet. Michael is right. I made an assumption you had a domain already. hostname.localdomain would work. You could use anything you want for the hostname part in that example. Your ISP may also assign a hostname for you which you could use. AT&T assigned some goofy hostname (can't remember what it was) to me originally, which I was able to use as <hostname>.attbi.com. JMF -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
