Re: Desktop hostname?
Hey Joel,
Well it doesn't really matter as far as i know. It might be good to set a proper hostname though. For example, if your Cable Modem provider supply you with a static IP address that has reverse DNS configured for it you might want to set it to that of the rdns address. But if its a dynamic IP address (that means if it changes on occasion) Just whatever you want is cool. We have several servers here behind one IP address and our firewall routes the packets from specific ports to the correct server, for example a connection to port 25 would go to our mail server and a connection to port 80 would go to our web server etc... they all have one external IP But internally they're named however we like, such as gibson and bigdaddy so I don't think it makes a difference.
Ken
Replying to the message sent by Joel Konkle-Parker on Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:33:49 -0600 (CST), received at 20:44:28 on 07/11/2003. Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
>I'm an average-Joe user on a lone desktop machine connected to the internet
>through a cable modem & router. Currently, I have my hostname set to 'Moe',
>simply because I think Moe is a good name for my computer. This seems to show up
>in lots of other things, though, like assumed e-mail addresses and default
>identifiers and such. Is there anything this /should/ be set to? 'localhost'
>seems to be the default, but that doesn't seem any more descriptive or useful
>than my made-up name.
>
>I guess this question is related to my exim settings. Exim has always seemed to
>me to be good for server-type systems, not home desktops. Although I'd really
>like to get it working to at least be able to send mail through it, so I don't
>have the personal stigma of having a 'broken mail system' anymore.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>--
>Joel Konkle-Parker
>Webmaster [Ballsome.com]
>
>Phone [662-518-1636]
>E-mail [jjk3@msstate.edu]
Reply to: