rblythe wrote these words on 06/04/06 12:33 CST: > Yes I am behind a router. when I issue the dnsdomainname command the > output is: > localdomain > > I never did put much thought on how this name is registered on a LAN. I > guess now I have more to research and learn about.
There really isn't much to learn about as name resolution is fairly simple. :-) You can do it all through /etc/hosts if you like. And BTW, there doesn't have to be any "registering" of a domain name on a LAN. Simply identifying in /etc/hosts is enough. Though you could run a DNS server on your LAN and have that local domain name "registered", but then all the hosts on the LAN would have to use that DNS server in order to resolve using the domain name. In a small LAN of say 10 or less devices, I find it easiest to work with hard-coded IP addresses and names using hosts files (additionally, LMHOSTS files on Windows PCs). That way you don't need a DNS server and you can still resolve using names. For you, if you set your hosts file up similar to the example I showed earlier: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.x.xxx computer.rblythe.prv rblythe Then your computer would be known as rblythe and computer.rblythe.prv to any other devices on the LAN that you identify these same IP addesses and names in whatever name/address resolving mechanism it uses. And you could've used computer.rblythe.prv in the NSS tests and it would have been fine. BTW, the 'computer' in the name is just an example, and it should be the same as the non-fully qualfied name next to it (aliases). Though it doesn't have to be. Example 192.168.0.200 computer1 randy rrm rrmlinux randy.mcmurchy.prv Now, your computer would know itself by: localhost computer1 randy rrm rrmlinux randy.mcmurchy.prv And any other device on your network would also know your computer as those names if you identified them in the host resolving mechanism of the other devices. Everything clear as mud? :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 12:39:00 up 23 days, 4:39, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.12, 0.09 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
