Setting up network

[Tomas Quintero]

Essentially, the host is the 'name of the machine' if you will. So if
you want, you can name it betty, or uberserver1. It doesn't matter.
For that fact, as far as I really know, nor does the domain matter.
However commonly when naming servers and such, they have corresponding
names and domains so that they can be labeled and people who need to
know, know what these machines do.

In short, no, the names do not matter for your internal home network.


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:52:52 -0500, Jonathan Arnold
<jdarnold at buddydog.org> wrote:
> Something I've never been able to figure out. When installing a
> new machine, and you come to the "Network Configuration" dialog,
> what do you put in for the Host: and Domain: if it is a machine
> on an internal network (ie., 192.168.1.149)?  Does it matter?
> Just give it a simple hostname and be done with it? Make something
> up?
> 
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