Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread 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

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread L Goodwin
I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for your LAN? --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pick a domain you own, or buy a new one. They is why there are so many

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for your LAN? Sure does, no reason not to. The only issue may be having unique machine

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread L Goodwin
--- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for your LAN? Sure does, no reason not to.

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Pluta
domains. That makes more sense. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-Hostname-Question---Whats-The-Proper-Way-tf4351213.html#a12418257 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:55 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread L Goodwin
--- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:29 PM, L Goodwin wrote: Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN the same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail server and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are mail.domainname.com and

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread L Goodwin
--- Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:29 PM, L Goodwin wrote: Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN the same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail server and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname for the web server is. The

FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Pluta
started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-Hostname-Question---Whats-The-Proper-Way-tf4351213.html#a12398274 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:05 PM 8/29/2007, 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

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Jonathan Horne
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

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Pluta
servers each of which has a hostname mail, web, etc.. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeBSD-Hostname-Question---Whats-The-Proper-Way-tf4351213.html#a12398404 Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:19:58 Peter Pluta wrote: How does one pick a domain? Just any old domain? thats often how it goes! mine was originally dfwlanparty... but dfwlp just became the shortend version of what the community referred to it as. i bought the domain just out of