On Friday 29 March 2002 08:55 pm, Aaron Winters wrote: > What are the "rules" when giving a machine a hostname? The machine in ? > does not have an external IP and there is no real hostname to give, as in > mandrake.com or something like that I am just going to use it as a > "learning box" for setting up web, ftp, Samba, etc. So can I call it > whatever I want, does it need to be, something.com?
You can call it anything you want. I call my local (non-public) network localnet.fsn I think it is a good idea not to use a Top Level Domain names (.com. .org, .net) I use fsn as it is my company initials, and localnet, so users know its on the local network. -- Gerald Waugh : Registered Linux user # 255245 http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com New Haven, CT, United States of America 9:07pm up 8 days, 5:32, 2 users, load average: 0.82, 0.95, 0.98
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