Domain name for local network?

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 20:32, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

> If I have a couple of boxes in a home network that connects to the Internet
> via ppp, is there any way I can name my network?  I don't want to register
> a name, just use it locally.  This way I can refer to
> 'neptune.jonathon.org' or something similar rather than '10.0.0.1'.

Andrew gave a good HOW-TO.
In general, you would choose a TLD (the last part of a domainname, like .org 
or .net) that does not exist on the internet, so that you never confuse it 
with a real domainname.

.lan, .home or .here are good candidates.
-- 
Melvyn

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