Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:56:56 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp Message-ID: <A4C2A0D1-077F-4E92-A5C9-3FB06A0C313E@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4F91BBCA.5050207@onetel.com> References: <4F91BBCA.5050207@onetel.com>
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On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > 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? There have been a few domains which are permanently reserved and will never be assigned elsewhere: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt You can reasonably claim to be part of your ISP's domain, if you prefer. .lan might be reasonable, or .local, although the latter might conflict with Bonjour/Zeroconf. > 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. It's mainly used to setup the default search domain which clients use to find local unqualified hosts. Regards, -- -Chuck
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