Hi guys, I'm kind of a newbie at setting up domains on my private networks. I have a firewall (OpenBSD 3.7) connected to the internet, a wireless network, and a wired network. It serves internet to the wired and wireless network via pf (NAT). The router is headless. I have clients on both wired and wireless networks. I'm not running a DNS server anyway. In fact, I'm not sure how to setup named. But I was wondering, since the router is headless and I have to ssh into it, I need to login without worrying about stupid ip addresses.
I don't want register any domains, just something for network to identification is easier. In fact, I don't even want a domain presence outside the networks. to ssh into the firewall, I have to: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rather, I would like to just ssh firewall (or whatever hostname is given to it) Say I have two comps on the wired network and two comps on the wireless network and the firewall. I would like to assign everything to a common domainname (whether they run linux, windows, whatever). Say the domainname is daemonized.net. when I do ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a client to admin the firewall, I get nothing to work. What are the steps (in detail) I have to do get this working. Do I even need a DNS server to register the ip address with the names? This seems like a no-brainer question, but I'd say I'm relatively new in networking. I hope you guys don't grill me for this. Thanks a bunch. Appreciate it. I'll send out any system info after any replies. Vivek
