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 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? > > > I'm not aware of any specially allocated TLD name string that is > guaranteed will never to be used for the name-string of a new TLD by > the administrative authorities of the web. If you use some obscene > word, you can be pretty sure it will not be used. I use TLD = 'gnu'. I > figure that the authority is sufficiently subservient to commercial > interests that open source will never be allowed such prominence. And > for my local domain is use 'lan', so the host I'm using to compose > this, which I call 'big', has the FQDN, 'big.lan.gnu'. This protects > me from having to deal with wierd, anal-retentive software that > insists on having well formed FQDN entries in /etc/hosts. >
I just installed OpenBSD on my 486 and it defaults to .my.domain, so its FQDN is reliant.my.domain. If I stick with OBSD for that box, I may need to use FQDNs on the other boxes for consistancy. 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 :) Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
