On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:17, will trillich wrote: > at the risk of exposing another 'religious' issue-- > > let's say you have a static IP 12.34.56.78 and a public domain > name 'mydomain.org' attached to it. > > now you add a private internal lan using 192.168.*.* so your > spouse and kids can surf for bomb recipes and porn... > > what kind of naming setup do you use for the intRAnet? something > totally different from the public access point ("timmy.my.lan" > for example) or do you branch off the original public name > ("timmy.private.mydomain.org" for example)? > > ...and explain your rationale. thanks!
$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.5 potato.ourmanpann.com potato 192.168.1.1 firewall.ourmanpann.com firewall 192.168.1.2 rescue.ourmanpann.com rescue 192.168.1.3 win95.ourmanpann.com win95 192.168.1.4 openbsd.ourmanpann.com openbsd 192.168.1.101 laptop.ourmanpann.com laptop [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh firewall cat /etc/hosts # $Id: hosts,v 1.6 2001/03/12 03:02:33 root Exp root $ 127.0.0.1 localhost abc.def.142.58 blowfish.ourmanpann.com blowfish 192.168.1.1 firewall.ourmanpann.com firewall 192.168.1.2 rescue.ourmanpann.com rescue 192.168.1.3 win95.ourmanpann.com win95 192.168.1.4 openbsd.ourmanpann.com openbsd 192.168.1.5 potato.ourmanpann.com potato 192.168.1.101 laptop.ourmanpann.com laptop I use my domain. And abc.def.142.58 isn't "public" in the sense you mean, it's not in DNS as belonging to ourmanpann.com. My web site is hosted externally. .2-.5 are all the same machine, depending on what I select at boot time. Haven't given this too much thought, it's just that one domain is plenty to keep track of for my tiny mind. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^