[newbie] fully-qualified domain names....
This one should be really easy, but it has me baffled. I'm supposed to give my computer a fully-qualified host name, and I don't know what name to give it. At the moment it is not connected to the Internet so I don't suppose it is that important, but when I do get it connected (a task that will involve recompiling the kernel with support for the Alcatel ADSL USB modem I anticipate much grief) it probably will. On the other hand, I won't be using the system to provide any services outside the local area network (192.168.1.0); my website is remotely hosted and I collect my mail from a remote server, so no external clients need to use DNS to find my machine. An additional possible complication: I use one ISP - call it isp.com - for the connection (and outgoing mail); another company (call it hostingco.com) hosts my webspace and mailboxes; while a third (domainco.com) provides my domain names and forwards mail and http to hostingco.com. (It just worked out cheaper that way). So should the fully qualified host name be: myhost.isp.com myhost.hostingco.com or myhost.mydomain.com (where mydomain is registered with domainco.com) Or doesn't it matter? And where does the Samba workgroup name come in?
Re: [newbie] fully-qualified domain names....
So should the fully qualified host name be: myhost.isp.com myhost.hostingco.com Hi Ed, I don't think it matters anything. The 192.168.x.x IP group is for private LAN only, as is 10.0.x.x and 127.0.x.x You can name the machine anything. I have 2 PC's, one is paul.merlin and the other is tbird.merlin. Merlin just because I like it. Paul was the first machine I got, and tbird is from the AMD Thunderbird processor inside. So you can call it edward, eddy as the shipboard computer on the Heart of Gold (Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy), edward.linux, anything you like. The only thing I can do with Samba is dance it. I don't have that package actively installed on the machines... hope this helps Paul
Re: [newbie] fully-qualified domain names....
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001 20:23, Edward Barrow wrote: This one should be really easy, but it has me baffled. I'm supposed to give my computer a fully-qualified host name, and I don't know what name to give it. At the moment it is not connected to the Internet so I don't suppose it is that important, but when I do get it connected (a task that will involve recompiling the kernel with support for the Alcatel ADSL USB modem I anticipate much grief) it probably will. On the other hand, I won't be using the system to provide any services outside the local area network (192.168.1.0); my website is remotely hosted and I collect my mail from a remote server, so no external clients need to use DNS to find my machine. An additional possible complication: I use one ISP - call it isp.com - for the connection (and outgoing mail); another company (call it hostingco.com) hosts my webspace and mailboxes; while a third (domainco.com) provides my domain names and forwards mail and http to hostingco.com. (It just worked out cheaper that way). So should the fully qualified host name be: myhost.isp.com myhost.hostingco.com or myhost.mydomain.com (where mydomain is registered with domainco.com) Or doesn't it matter? And where does the Samba workgroup name come in? The hostname is what your computer will be called on a network. It is synonymous with a computer name in Windows. It doesn't really matter what the hostname is -- you could call your computer Bob if you really wanted. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
