-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/07 11:33, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer > (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by dial-up modem and > providing some services to my network: e.g. dnsmasq, exim4 smarthost, > ntp, but nothing to the internet. It also runs shorewall for good > measure. Everything works fine. > > Samhain complains that the box doesn't have a FQDN. > My old 486 (reliant: 192.168.1.2) I'm trying different OSs that will > install. NetBSD's sendmail tries twice to get a FQ name (which slows > down the boot) but then gives up and just uses 'reliant'. > > The old installer asks for one's domain name but says its ok to leave > blank if there is none. Etch's (if I remember right) asks for it and > says that if one is stand-alone to just make one up (I left it blank). > > Should I have one and if so, where all do I have to put it?
When installing an OS on my home LAN, I tell it that the network domain name is, simply, "homelan". In Debian, that gets stored in /etc/mailname. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGP2YJS9HxQb37XmcRAmmSAJ9O/4M5EPfPPsPOuiRjVjuz83XDsgCgvzX5 zLDDJZAopBnNxXouxawpleo= =TS5B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
