What goes in /etc/hosts?
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Thu Mar 10 20:16:31 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 14:21, Nat Gross wrote:
> So, if I understand it correctly, .local is just an agreed upon
> protocol. It's NOT something that *any* software translates to meaning
> 'the local lan'. I might just as well use kitchen.homearea.kerrybush,
> floor.homearea.kerrybush. (Why kerrybush? Sure to be unique! :-) )
> By the way, can't I [in most cases] just get away with short names for
> a local lan?
> Thanks;
> -nat
I have used .lan for local TLD. I have also found it useful to use
things like servername.abc.lan as the FQDN format. You do need to use
masquerade techniques for email when doing this since such a FQDN is not
known outside of the local lan.
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Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
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