Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread L Goodwin
--- Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:29 PM, L Goodwin wrote: > > > Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN > the > > same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail > server > > and ftp server? I don't even know what the > hostname > > for the web serv

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:29 PM, L Goodwin wrote: Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN the same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail server and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are "mail..com" and "ftp..com", so I guess

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread L Goodwin
--- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: > > >--- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > > > > > At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: > > > >I and most of my clients who have hosted web > sites > > > >have just the one domain name. Does it ma

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:55 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: > > >--- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > > > > > At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: > > > >I and most of my clients who have hosted web > sites > > > >

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: > >I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites > >have just the one domain name. Does it make sense > to > >use the same domain name that your hosted web site > >

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Pluta
send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Ah ok. I host a few domains on my box, 3 web, and 1 mail. I will just call my box box(anything).placidpublishing.net and just have dns entries for mail, www, etc.. to the appropriate domains. That makes more sense. Thanks --

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread L Goodwin
--- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: > >I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites > >have just the one domain name. Does it make sense > to > >use the same domain name that your hosted web site > >uses for your LAN? > > Sure does, no reas

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for your LAN? Sure does, no reason not to. The only issue may be having unique machine names,

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread L Goodwin
I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for your LAN? --- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pick a domain you own, or buy a new one. They is > why there are so many > d

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:19 PM 8/29/2007, Peter Pluta wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:05:06 Peter Pluta wrote: >> I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http, >> smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm >> wondering what

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:19:58 Peter Pluta wrote: > How does one pick a domain? > Just any old domain? thats often how it goes! mine was originally "dfwlanparty"... but dfwlp just became the shortend version of what the community referred to it as. i bought the domain just out of conven

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Pluta
send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Right, my current box is mail.placidpublishing.com, I only have 1 box, and it does web and mail. I just picked placidpublishing and used that since it was a domain I had laying arond. Is that "ok"? How does one pick a do

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:05:06 Peter Pluta wrote: > I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http, > smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm > wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's > localhost.localdomain. Th

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:05 PM 8/29/2007, Peter Pluta wrote: I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http, smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's localhost.localdomain. This has always confu

FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Pluta
ng when I first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-Hostname-Question---Whats-The-Proper-Way-tf4351213.html#a12398274 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archiv