your hostname should really only be a single name without a dot since it's the *name* of your computer. however, that does not prevent you from fitting it into the big scheme of mydomain.com.
let's say that you named your machine "pear," then /etc/hostname would read just pear, your /etc/hosts file would be cat << EOF > /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost pear EOF your /etc/resolv.conf file would be cat << EOF > /etc/resolv.conf domain mydomain.com search mydomain.com nameserver 1.2.3.4 # replace with nameserver address 1 nameserver 5.6.7.8 # replace with nameserver address 2 nameserver 3.5.7.9 # replace with nameserver address 3 nameserver 2.4.6.8 # replace with nameserver address 4 EOF and you'd configure your DNS zone to have your static IP (say 111.222.111.222) to point to pear.mydomain.com: pear.mydomain.com. IN A 111.222.111.222 now your machine would happily interact with anything else, being known as "pear" to console users and users on machines that belong to mydomain.com. from the outside, it would be pear.mydomain.com. i hope this answered your question... martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is not king. he is taken to be a hallucinating lunatic." -marshall mcluhan
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