Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:00:18 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Walter Jansen" <walter.jansen@inter.nl.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: redundancy in domain or hostname ? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080128165635.024f4d50@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <000401c8607c$9dad4a50$0a01a8c0@680nr0j> References: <000401c8607c$9dad4a50$0a01a8c0@680nr0j>
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At 06:36 PM 1/26/2008, Walter Jansen wrote:
>The router connected to my server reports DNS inquiries like
>"myserver.example.com.example.com" which obviously leads nowhere
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>The server is in a SOHO situation connected to a router which is connected
>to DSL; the server runs 6.3 Release and will serve as mailserver for the few
>in-house employees and as a webserver. The domain "example.com" is
>registered with Dyndns.org who also run the "Custom DNS service". The DNS
>entries were checked with Dyndns.org staff and found in accordance with the
>purpose.
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>During installation of the server, the hostname "myserver.example.com" and
>the domain name "example.com" were entered in the appropiate Sysinstall
>dialog
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>/etc/hosts shows:
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>::1 localhost.example.com localhost
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>127.0.0.1 localhost.example.com localhost
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>192.168.1.13 myserver.example.com myserver
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>192.168.1.13 myserver.example.com.
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>192.168.1.13 is allocated to the server by the DHCP of the router; this IP
>address is fixed though!!
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>Table /etc/resolv.com reads:
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>domain example.com
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>nameserver 192.168.1.1 (my router's IP address
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>I postponed installation of Postfix and Apache as I feel that host- and
>domainname should be configured correctly to prevent accumulating trouble.
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>Remarks a most appreciated.
The extra entries in /etc/hosts are for both IP6 and IP4 the hostname entry
with the trailing dot: myserver.example.com. denotes it as a fully
qualified domain name, FQDN.
If hostname shows the correct hostname with one domain, the problem is else
ware. If it is else ware, I suspect your router is adding the example.com
to every lookup.
-Derek
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