Re: [newbie] Specifying a hostname

2002-03-30 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
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

Re: [newbie] Specifying a hostname

2002-03-30 Thread Aaron Winters
Message - From: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 7:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Specifying a hostname Aaron Winters wrote: What are the rules when giving a machine a hostname? The machine in ? does not have an external IP

[newbie] Specifying a hostname

2002-03-29 Thread Aaron Winters
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

Re: [newbie] Specifying a hostname

2002-03-29 Thread Gerald Waugh
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

Re: [newbie] Specifying a hostname

2002-03-29 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 29 March 2002 07:55 pm, you 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,