Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:03:19PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Looking at man 1 hostname, it looks like /etc/hostname is just the short hostname. The FQDN

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:40:16AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:03:19PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Looking at man 1

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-08 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 7 May 2007 20:22:22 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:01:10PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:40:16AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:03:19PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Looking at man 1

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:45:01AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:40:16AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:03:19PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 03:05:23PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:45:01AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:40:16AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:03:19PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:18:41PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 03:05:23PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Yes, I have identical /etc/hosts on all boxes (yeah scp). I know about NAT/masq and have shorewall do that. As far as inaccessible domainnames is there a

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:16:27PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I'll do some searching. The only non-resovable one I know is example.com but then, I wouldn't want to use it since then it would be resolvable :) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host example.comexample.com has address 192.0.34.166

does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by dial-up modem and providing some services to my network: e.g. dnsmasq, exim4 smarthost, ntp, but nothing to the internet. It also runs shorewall for good measure. Everything works

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/07 11:33, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by dial-up modem and providing some services to my network: e.g. dnsmasq, exim4

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by dial-up modem and providing some services to my network: e.g. dnsmasq, exim4 smarthost, ntp, but

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by dial-up modem and providing

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:12:20PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:12:20PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:58:28PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:12:20PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 7 May

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Jeff D
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:01:10PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:14:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:58:28PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:12:20PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon,

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Looking at man 1 hostname, it looks like /etc/hostname is just the short hostname. The FQDN comes from /etc/hosts. man dnsdomainname Wayne -- There

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:01:10PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: what does hostname -f show? uname -n will always show the just the hostname. titan. If I do need a domain name, then it would be 192.168.1.1 titan.homenet