Re: hostname/netname

[Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

thanks for your info! now i've got some fine-tune questions--

On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:21:40PM -0400, Gregg C wrote:
> If you want people to be able to surf www.dontuthink.com, email 
> will@dontuthink.com, telnet to server.dontuthink.com,  etc then you need 
> DNS. Your ISP could do it, but its generally better/easier just to do it 
> yourself.
> 
> your resolv.conf would be:
> 
> domain dontuthink.com
> search whatever.lan
> nameserver 192.168.1.1

how about
	domain dontUthink.com
	search lan
	nameserver 127.0.0.1
	nameserver ip.name.server.addr
?  is 127.0.0.1 bad compared to 192.168.1.1 for lan-wise dns?
or does it not make any difference?

> This will allow you to work locally for telnet, bubb1, etc but will respond 
> to the outside world with dontuthink.com
> 
> /etc/hosts:
> 208.33.90.85 server.dontuthink.com
> 192.168.1.1  server.whatever.lan	server

and
	127.0.0.1 loopback
right?

also, doesn't the sequencing mean something?
	208.33.90.85 server server.dontUthink.com
makes display apps (ipfwadm -l for example)
show 'server' instead of trying to use the
full name 'server.dontUthink.com', yes?

mine also has the 'new style' gunk:
	::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
	fe00:: ip6-localnet
	...