Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?
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On 05/07/07 11:33, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer
> (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by dial-up modem and
> providing some services to my network: e.g. dnsmasq, exim4 smarthost,
> ntp, but nothing to the internet. It also runs shorewall for good
> measure. Everything works fine.
>
> Samhain complains that the box doesn't have a FQDN.
> My old 486 (reliant: 192.168.1.2) I'm trying different OSs that will
> install. NetBSD's sendmail tries twice to get a FQ name (which slows
> down the boot) but then gives up and just uses 'reliant'.
>
> The old installer asks for one's domain name but says its ok to leave
> blank if there is none. Etch's (if I remember right) asks for it and
> says that if one is stand-alone to just make one up (I left it blank).
>
> Should I have one and if so, where all do I have to put it?
When installing an OS on my home LAN, I tell it that the network
domain name is, simply, "homelan". In Debian, that gets stored in
/etc/mailname.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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