On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:19 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, June 21, 2012 5:58 pm, Michael Chesterton wrote: > > > where 1.2.3.4 is your eth0/wlan0/whatever address. If you don't have a > > static ip, say a roaming laptop, use > > 127.0.1.1 my_hostname.my_domain my_hostname > > That way forward and reverse lookups will make sense. If you do that, > > don't forget to remove my_hostname from the localhost{,6} line. > > > Michael, > > thanks, this just brought something up: > so, for my cell phone/tablet, I should do that, yes..? > > 127.0.0.1.1 mycell.tld mycell > > what do I put in my domain dns ? do I put ...CNAME ..? dyndns ?
It's mainly used for daemons like web servers and mail servers, so if you aren't running them on your tablet, it's not critical. If you don't have a valid fqdn just make something up, like 127.0.1.1 mycell.home mycell or whatever, you could even leave the fqdn out and just have 127.0.1.1 mycell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
