localhost.localdomain I have a registered domain name called screechowl.org, if I name one of my computers impala and another jackrabbit It should look like impala.screechowl.org and jackrabbit.screechowl.org if they all were on the Internet. I have all my computers behind a router and use port forwarding for my website and other services. I only have 1 IP address on the Internet (in DNS) that address is assigned to the router. In other words all http traffic for www.screechowl.org goes to the router that has the IP address (in DNS) for screechowl.org assigned to it. The router is exposed to the Internet not my computer. I tell the router to forward port 80 requests to an internal IP address assigned to a computer, like 192.168.0.20 that computer has the web server in it. It's a just 2 names thats all, as long as it is inside your network. For all it matters I could call my domain inside "coffee" and computers "cup" and "pot" I would have cup.coffee and pot.coffee no one would know because of the router. I still have screechowl.org for my web site, the router would send port 80 http requests to pot.coffee who's internal IP address is 192.168.0.20. Just remember if you have to explain the name of your inside domain to someone it should be well... socially acceptable ;-) Now if I can get the domain to brew me a cup of hot coffee... I wonder if I could find a USP coffee pot and use cron... Sam. Mark Browne wrote: >Bob, >Yes, mandrake on sparc! >See: >http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html >Mandrake has worked better than redhat (for me) and I have stuck with it >since. An example: my "new" SCSI drives came from a RAID array. Redhat and >Suse curled up and died with the "unknown" format on the drives. Mandrake >just asked if I wanted to reformat and trundled on. As far as I am >concerned, most of a given distro revolves around the installer and packaged >applications. The Mandrake installer has consistently dealt with the weird >hardware I have laying around better than other distros, on all my boxen. > >I agree that localhost is special. >Hostname gives me: >Localhost.localdomain > >What brought all this on is that I tire of my prompt saying: >[markb at localhost markb]$ >I guess that I should have asked about the "localdomain" part. >Or is this special too? > >Should I be setting my domain to something if I don't have one? >Somehow, it does not seem that using "Comcast.net" is the right thing. > >Mark Browne > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bob Hartmann [mailto:bhartm at visi.com] >Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:49 PM >To: Mark Browne >Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Stupid newbie question > > >Hey Mark, >localhost is not the domain name. localhost is a builtin thing and >should not be altered, like 127.0.0.1. It's the host, meaning THIS >DEVICE, or THIS NODE. >Try "hostname" and "info hostname" >For adding other nodes as names to Linux, Unix or BSD, it's in >/etc/hosts, just like the hosts file on Windows. (I don't remember where >that is) Check out http://tldp.org/LDP/nag/node62.html. Look at the >links at the top of the page! > > >127.0.0.1 localhost >127.0.0.1 hitshed >10.0.0.44 thatotherthing > >cat /etc/nsswitch.conf >hosts: files dns > >Did I hear you right? Mandrake on Sparc? > > >Mark Browne wrote: > > > >>When I set up my linux boxen I have been leaving the domain name as >>localhost. My ISP is Comcast.net and I don't have my own domain name >>to plug in. >> >>I know that this is sort of retarded, but I have no clue about the >>correct thing to do here. >> >>If it makes any difference, I want to network (samba?) my Mandrake-Sun >>Sparc, Mandrake Intel, OS X Mac, AMD-64 XP, and Intel XP boxen >>together later. >> >>A pointer to a good how-to would be nice. >> >>Mark Browne >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> >> > > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.6 - Release Date: 3/30/2005