[SunHELP] Hostname question...

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

I do not profess to be any expert on this, but these are my $0.02. Any
corrections are welcome.

You will only have to set-up a FQDN if you are intending to use it within
your system for sendmail or other progs which require it. Other than that
you do not have to, though it is probably a good idea. If nslookup gives you
a domain name it will do no harm to include it. The only thing that is
important is to make sure that if you do a reverse lookup of your IP, it
resolves to a FQDN as some programs use this when you are communicating with
them egg ssh.

Peter
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Peter Stokes
Ashlyn Computer Services Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)1636-627900
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Web: http://www.ashlyn.co.uk
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-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Michael Vang
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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