From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 8:17:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B09E37B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:17:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx3.mail.ru (mx3.mail.ru [194.67.57.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0E843E42 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:17:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from _pppp@mail.ru) Received: from [213.128.193.142] (helo=mail.ru) by mx3.mail.ru with esmtp (Exim SMTP.3) id 17iGBW-00026u-00; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:17:14 +0400 Message-ID: <3D6651F4.10801@mail.ru> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:17:08 +0400 From: dima <_pppp@mail.ru> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020816 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Henning, Brian" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: domain name question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Henning, Brian wrote: > hello- > i have a my freebsd machine behind a firewall on my local network. The > machine is a local server for other machines on the local network. I give it > a local ip address of 192.168.1.11 and a machine name of trinity. I didn't > give it a domain name because i really don't have a registered domain. this > is causing problems with sendmail and httpd. am i required to give it a > domain name to have httpd and sendmail work properly or could there be > another reason why these program comlain about the domain name? > thanks, > brian i used to install the local (corporate only) mail server in .root domain. domain name doesn't really matter on a local network; so, you can choose the one you like. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message