From owner-freebsd-security Fri Nov 19 14:37:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nethampton.com (fbsd1.nethampton.com [209.51.166.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11BCC15780 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:37:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tplatt@nethampton.com) Received: (qmail 11906 invoked from network); 19 Nov 1999 22:37:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?24.188.227.12?) (24.188.227.12) by fbsd1.nethampton.com with SMTP; 19 Nov 1999 22:37:27 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:37:12 -0500 To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org From: "Timothy R. Platt" Subject: Re: [Systalk] localhost.org (fwd) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Another thing you (the original poster) could do, is if you want your >machine to work on the net like domain.com, You could simply name the >machine something.domain.com, CNAME domain.com to it, and reverse the >IP address to domain.com. This will do the trick to having the machine >show up on the internet (IRC, etc) as domain.com, while leaving your >machine with a "hostname" so your domain would be '.com' or in your >case, '.org' -Matt > arpa should reflect FQDN, not a CNAME. If you do this you create problems for yourself when you contact other systems; for example systems with tcpd compiled -DPARANOID. It will work for nameservice purposes, but you won't be able to connect to my system, at least :) tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message