I'm a little uncertain about which domain name to use for my network configuration. Here's the setup:
* I have a small home network. Until today, only one of the machines on it was running Linux - now I've installed Mandrake 10 Community on another. * I own a domain name - let's call it mydomain.com - so when I was installing Mandrake I chose this for the machine's domain. The machine's name is 'photo' So the FQDN for that machine is: photo.mydomain.com. * However, the other Linux machine, called 'scoop' (running SuSE, as it happens) selected for itself the domain 'local' - so that machine is 'scoop.local'. * The domain mydomain.com is actually hosted by a third party, not on my machines. Does any of this matter much? Are there advantages to having both machines using 'mydomain.com'? I thought I'd ask because I've just persuaded my better half to convert to Linux, so a third Linux machine will be joining the network. I've googled a fair bit on this, but nothing I've found really tackles the issue of whether it matters what domain name you choose - simply that you have to have one! Intuitively, I can see that it might be best if all the machines have the same DN - I don't know what it affects, but it seems sensible that they would. But should it be 'mydomain.com' or 'local'? I'd appreciate any thoughts.
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