FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

[Derek Ragona]

At 07:19 PM 8/29/2007, Peter Pluta wrote:



>Jonathan Horne wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:05:06 Peter Pluta wrote:
> >> I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http,
> >> smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm
> >> wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's
> >> localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when
> >> I
> >> first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly
> >> appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >
> > its fairly simple actually.  example:
> >
> > my system's name is athena.  my domain, is dfwlp.com... thus my computer
> > is
> > athena.dfwlp.com.  the hostname command can show you waht your current
> > hostname is:
> >
> > [jhorne at athena ~] $ hostname
> > athena.dfwlp.com
> >
> > also, there is a line in /etc/rc.conf that specifys the system's hostname
> > when
> > you start up:
> >
> > [jhorne at athena ~] $ cat /etc/rc.conf|grep hostname
> > hostname="athena.dfwlp.com"
> >
> > finally, when you are installing freebsd, during the "network
> > configuration"
> > page, the "Host:" box would be where i would put "athena", and the
> > "Domain:"
> > box would be where i put "dfwlp.com" (when you set your domain, you dont
> > put
> > the . in front of the domain name, ie, dont put .dfwlp.com in the domain
> > box).
> >
> > cheers,
> > --
> > Jonathan Horne
> > http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org
> > freebsd at dfwlp.com
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>
>Right, my current box is mail.placidpublishing.com, I only have 1 box, and
>it does web and mail. I just picked placidpublishing and used that since it
>was a domain I had laying arond. Is that "ok"? How does one pick a domain?
>Just any old domain? I keep visualizing a domain as in 3-4 servers each of
>which has a hostname mail, web, etc..

Pick a domain you own, or buy a new one.  They is why there are so many 
domain possibilities these days, like .info, .biz, etc. in addition to the 
"regular" .com, .net, .org

         -Derek

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