-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 January 2004 03:31 pm, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > 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.
If he's behind some sort of routing device, he can certainly setup a DNS witin his own network. - -- Best regards, Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAEEMKD5P/gMAbw2MRAvuUAJ9YHF3dH+VPpeDPNTysaVGaoZCVPwCgl6VT QYMOOZgA4cxGgeNUCj5tr4w= =rTss -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"