Re: hostname/netname

2000-10-14 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:44:47AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > thanks for your info! now i've got some fine-tune questions-- > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:21:40PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > > If you want people to be able to surf www.dontuthink.com, email > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], telnet to server.d

Re: hostname/netname

2000-09-16 Thread Gregg C
how about domain dontUthink.com search lan nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver ip.name.server.addr ? is 127.0.0.1 bad compared to 192.168.1.1 for lan-wise dns? or does it not make any difference? 127.0.0.1 is mainly for the loopback. using 127.0.0.1 will work. I ju

Re: hostname/netname

2000-09-12 Thread Will Trillich
thanks for your info! now i've got some fine-tune questions-- On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:21:40PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > If you want people to be able to surf www.dontuthink.com, email > [EMAIL PROTECTED], telnet to server.dontuthink.com, etc then you need > DNS. Your ISP could do it, but its g

Re: hostname/netname

2000-09-11 Thread Gregg C
From: Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: hostname/netname Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:11:53 -0500 On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:51:08PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > Just your hostname goes in hostname (simple enough) gotcha. > Put your domain

Re: hostname/netname

2000-09-11 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:51:08PM -0400, Gregg C wrote: > Just your hostname goes in hostname (simple enough) gotcha. > Put your domain name in /etc/hosts put a line like: > > 192.168.1.1 server.dontUthink.com server do i hafta be my own nameserver to do that? (i am, but i'm asking if it's

Re: hostname/netname

2000-09-11 Thread Gregg C
255 have special uses, so don't pick them. An excellent ip for the local side of a gateway box is 192.168.0.1. but then 192.168.100.1 192.168.0.167 192.168.199.198, etc are all perfectly ok. From: Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: hostn

hostname/netname

2000-09-11 Thread Will Trillich
i'm trying to figure out where i should put which components of my debian node name and my dns zone name... zone: dontUthink.com cpu: server if i have 'server' alone in /etc/hostname there seem to be places that don't know i'm in the dontUthink.com zone. if i have the whole server.dontUthink.com