On 20/04/2012 20:56, Chuck Swiger wrote:
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,
Thanks Chuck, I went with .lan.
cheers
Chris
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