Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?
On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400
Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> 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?
>
> Below, I've added my /etc/hosts
>
>
> Thanks,
> Doug.
>
> /etc/hosts:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
should solve the problem of the FQDN.
> 192.168.1.1 titan
> 192.168.1.2 reliant
> 192.168.1.3 pluto
> 192.168.1.4 comet
> 192.168.1.5 rocky
>
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
>
>
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