From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 20 19:41:58 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500CB1065672 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:41:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from woodbine.london.02.net (woodbine.london.02.net [87.194.255.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A2BF8FC16 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:41:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muji2.config (87.194.237.233) by woodbine.london.02.net (8.5.140) id 4F70C667009E4AB3 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:40:58 +0100 Message-ID: <4F91BBCA.5050207@onetel.com> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:40:58 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100924 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: User Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:41:58 -0000 hi, I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of installing FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a domain name. Also setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is domain name. What do you do if you don't have your own domain? I've never supplied a domain name when installing FreeBSD and it doesn't seem to have been a problem. I'm just setting up dhcp for the first time and I don't know if it matters here. thanks Chris