On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Marcus Moeller mm@gcug.de wrote:
So the conclusion seems to be:
If you have a local interface only you should just set:
127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost6
in /etc/hosts and
HOSTNAME=localhost
in /etc/sysconfig/network
This means it is not suggested to have a hostname other than localhost on a loopback only box.
If you have an network interface configured /etc/hosts may look like:
127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost6 10.0.0.50 host.domain.example host
and
HOSTNAME=host.domain.example
in /etc/sysconfig/network
I'm curious - I have a local 192.168.x.x subnet inside my firewall that I would like to give a name other than just "localdomain." Does it matter what I use, or are their words/pieces I should avoid? This is strictly for my internal subnet, not visible to the outside world at all.
Thanks.
mhr