On Monday 17 May 2004 10:38 pm, Steve Mansfield wrote:
> 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.
Here's my setup.
Domain name: soronlin.org.uk
External DNS:
www.soronlin.org.uk - registrar's server, redirected to ISP's server
notsaying.soronlin.org.uk - My IP address, ie my router
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - MX to notsaying.soronlin.org.uk (priority 10)
and ISP mailserver (priority 20)
Router:
Passes SMTP (TCP port 25) to mercury
Internal:
mercury.soronlin.org.uk
venus.soronlin.org.uk
That's worked faultlessly so far.
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Richard Urwin
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