Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 19 Nov 2005 01:31, Jim Flanagan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering what is the proper way to name a suse (linux)
> machine. In Yast there is DNS and Host Names. There is another option
> for Host Names.

I take it you mean the Network Services>DNS and Hostname dialog and the 
Hostname page in the Network Devices dialog? They are both the same. 
The domain setting in the NIS dialogs is completely separate from DNS 
and internet domains. As to "proper" way - set it in (either 
incarnation of) the DNS dialog.

> In a machine that is a server for my internet domain 
> name (me.com), should I use that as the Host Name (in DNS and Host
> Names), or should I name the machine any name, and enter internet
> domain name in Host Names?

Well, you can give the machine a hostname which is different from the 
public name. In fact, machines often have multiple names in DNS (a mail 
server may have a DNS entry for smtp.domain.com and pop3.domain.com and 
imap.domain.com, for example) all of which can differ from the 
machine's actual hostname. For simplicity, I'd make them the same.

Dylan

> I'm not doing any DNS stuff locally, I use 
> my ISP's DNS servers, and have a dynamic IP address from them (with
> RunDNS running of course). My Suse boxes are not routing at all, I
> have a little home box router doing that.
>
> Hope this dosen't sound like a "Who's on first" excercize.
>
> TIA,
>
> Jim

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