It does. Fantastic. Thanks. That is, there's lots for me to look up/at and understand more fully. This, however, is a framework ...
Cool beans! Glenn On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Martin F Krafft wrote: > your hostname should really only be a single name without a dot since > it's the *name* of your computer. however, that does not prevent you > from fitting it into the big scheme of mydomain.com. > > let's say that you named your machine "pear," then /etc/hostname would > read just pear, your /etc/hosts file would be > > cat << EOF > /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost pear > EOF > > your /etc/resolv.conf file would be > > cat << EOF > /etc/resolv.conf > domain mydomain.com > search mydomain.com > nameserver 1.2.3.4 # replace with nameserver address 1 > nameserver 5.6.7.8 # replace with nameserver address 2 > nameserver 3.5.7.9 # replace with nameserver address 3 > nameserver 2.4.6.8 # replace with nameserver address 4 > EOF > > and you'd configure your DNS zone to have your static IP (say > 111.222.111.222) to point to pear.mydomain.com: > > pear.mydomain.com. IN A 111.222.111.222 > > now your machine would happily interact with anything else, being > known as "pear" to console users and users on machines that belong to > mydomain.com. from the outside, it would be pear.mydomain.com. > > i hope this answered your question... > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- +----------------+ http://www.burningclown.com "Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All" +----------------+