Re: question about hostname
It does. Fantastic. Thanks.
That is, there's lots for me to look up/at and understand more fully.
This, however, is a framework ...
Cool beans!
Glenn
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Martin F Krafft
wrote:
> your hostname should really only be a single name without a dot since
> it's the *name* of your computer. however, that does not prevent you
> from fitting it into the big scheme of mydomain.com.
>
> let's say that you named your machine "pear," then /etc/hostname would
> read just pear, your /etc/hosts file would be
>
> cat << EOF > /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost pear
> EOF
>
> your /etc/resolv.conf file would be
>
> cat << EOF > /etc/resolv.conf
> domain mydomain.com
> search mydomain.com
> nameserver 1.2.3.4 # replace with nameserver address 1
> nameserver 5.6.7.8 # replace with nameserver address 2
> nameserver 3.5.7.9 # replace with nameserver address 3
> nameserver 2.4.6.8 # replace with nameserver address 4
> EOF
>
> and you'd configure your DNS zone to have your static IP (say
> 111.222.111.222) to point to pear.mydomain.com:
>
> pear.mydomain.com. IN A 111.222.111.222
>
> now your machine would happily interact with anything else, being
> known as "pear" to console users and users on machines that belong to
> mydomain.com. from the outside, it would be pear.mydomain.com.
>
> i hope this answered your question...
>
> martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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