FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

[Derek Ragona]

At 07:55 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote:

>--- Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com>
>wrote:
>
> > At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote:
> >
> > >--- Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com>
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote:
> > > > >I and most of my clients who have hosted web
> > sites
> > > > >have just the one domain name. Does it make
> > sense
> > > > to
> > > > >use the same domain name that your hosted web
> > site
> > > > >uses for your LAN?
> > > >
> > > > Sure does, no reason not to.  The only issue may
> > be
> > > > having unique machine
> > > > names, but that shouldn't really be too tough.
> > >
> > >Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN
> > the
> > >same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail
> > server
> > >and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname
> > >for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are
> > >"mail.<domainname>.com" and "ftp.<domainname>.com",
> > so
> > >I guess I would not want to use these.
> >
> > Correct, only use host names that are unique.  Most
> > use some names that
> > help identify the machine by the dept, user, etc.
>
>Thanks for clearing that up, Derek. It's hard to know
>something until you actually _know_ it! :-)

It gets easier with experience.  Doesn't hurt if you do some DNS setups too.

         -Derek

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