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 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > The question is do I need to use a domain name? > > > > The short answer is NO. The longer answer starts with 'Well, it > depends on ...' > > For convenience, I have all FQDN appear in all copies of /etc/hosts on > my LAN. That way I have avoided learning how to set up a proper DNS > lookup system. > > Keep in mind that these name assignments link a name to an IP address > that must be inaccessable from the internet. So, the name that you > assign must also be inaccessable from the internet. This gives you a > lot of freedom of choise in name assignment. However, don't try to > name one of your hosts 'lists.debian.org', or you will loose contact > with this list! >
Thanks Paul, 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 TLD reserved (the way that ip addresses 192.168.*.* are unrouteable), something that will never be a domaine accessible from the internet? Should I use a trailing '.' at the end or not? Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
