Re: [SLUG] Misc. Annoyances (Hostname/DNS, Samba and Gnome)

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 18:36:33 EDT


On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:45:30AM -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:

> Paul M Foster wrote:
> >
> >
> > Call your machine anything you like on your local network. My home
> > machines are rocky, peabody and gumby. My home network is mars (not
> > mars.com). If you're using a dynamic IP and local IP addresses behind
> > the router, you're fine. The internet can't reach these addresses, since
> > they're local.
>
> Since its not truly a Top-Level-Domain suffix, most of the people I work
> with set their home networks to .lan domains. So for instance, my home
> network is illusionary.lan, which helps keep it logically seperate from
> the machines that are really internet-routable on my illusionary.com
> domain.
>

This is an excellent suggestion. Heads up-- I'll be using this
suggestion in the future. You don't have a software patent on it, do
you? ;-}

Paul



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