On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of installing > FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a domain name. Also > setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is domain name. What do you do if you > don't have your own domain?
There have been a few domains which are permanently reserved and will never be assigned elsewhere: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt You can reasonably claim to be part of your ISP's domain, if you prefer. .lan might be reasonable, or .local, although the latter might conflict with Bonjour/Zeroconf. > I've never supplied a domain name when installing FreeBSD and it doesn't seem > to have been a problem. I'm just setting up dhcp for the first time and I > don't know if it matters here. It's mainly used to setup the default search domain which clients use to find local unqualified hosts. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
