[SunHELP] Hostname question...

[Fletcher, Joe]

Depends entirely on what you are going to be doing with the system. If it's
not going to interact with the internet in any realistic sense you can get
away without the fqdn. If however the machine is expected to connect to
anything other than a private network then you will probably need to get the
machine named and registered. While some services will work, outsiders tend
to get upset when unnamed and unregistered hardware starts talking to them.




-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Vang [mailto:mvang at MailAndNews.com]
Sent: 16 August 2001 10:45
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] Hostname question...


I've searched Google, Deja and docs.sun.com, but I couldn't find an answer, 
so...

I have a static IP address, but I do not own a domain name... Should I
either 
make up a hostname, or use the one I get from doing an nslookup on my static

IP address... (I'm assuming that *all* IP addresses are required to have a 
FQDN... I'm still looking through RFCs for that answer...)

Thanks!

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