On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 22:21, Vince Littler wrote:
On Friday 24 September 2004 8:41 pm, Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
Hello all...
I have a domain, www.xyz.com, hosted on the internet. I have a server accesable as office.xyz.com.
The server is the server for a whole office, and has 2 network cards.
The external address coresponds to office.xyz.com. The internal is part of a 10.x.y.0/24 net...
My provider at www.xyz.com hosts my email accoutns. (He provides virus scanning, and Spam controll)
I also run a local email on office.xyz.com, since I don't want local email sent over the internet...
Now to my question.
What should the domain name of the office.xyz.com be? What should the doamin name of the machine in the office be?
What is the "correct" way to set this up, (instead of the way I got it working now)?
Jerry.
Presumably, email to you at xyz.com goes to you@xyz.com. Hence the domain you own is xyz.com, whereas I could surf to www.xyz.com, which is a host.
Provided that aspect is working to your satisfaction, the external naming is working fine and the terminology of domain and host [ie machine] is sorted.
Now, do you want the host office.xyz.com to be accessible from outside? Does it provide any service for which I or your ISP or any outsider might need to access it by name? If so, it should be <hostname>.xyz.com, where office is valid as <hostname>.
Yes, there is several services which I want to be accesable from the outside, the most promiment being ssh, but other also... I had planned on using office.xyz.com, but am confused, as to the internal naming convention. My sense of appropiateness says the machines inside the office should be called ws1.office.xyz.com This makes office.xyz.com a host name outside and a domain-name inside. I can find no way to handle this conflict... Maybe I should make the server accessable as server.office.xyz.com, to avoid this? And make server the default if no other specified? How is this stuff supposed to be set up? Obviously I'm confused as to what is appropiate (and correct)....
If you don't want it visible outside by name, don't give it an xyz.com hostname. Just call it office or something, either in the hosts files, or your internal DNS. Or invent an internal domain, which is not a recognised toplevel [.us, .uk .com .edu etc], and do your own DNS
Ah, this one I've done, making the internal host name server.xyz.local. It's the best I've come up with so far. But before I configure (another office server) that way I thought I'd ask my betters.... Jerry BTW. Thx for your time and efforts...