Hi all, I have a home server setup running Lenny. I have a question about the hostname and domain name.
On my server, I would like to host multiple websites using Apache and virtual hosts. I have a static IP address from my ISP over a DSL line. There is a router (wireless and wired) which routes to different computers on our office LAN, one of which is my server. I have configured the router to use a static IP address for my server (192.168.0.248), with all the other computers being assigned dynamic IPs via DHCP. The router port-forwards the necessary incoming ports (HTTP, ssh) to my server. My question is, how should my /etc/hosts file look. Here is what my current hosts file looks like: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 MyLocalHostName.MyLocalDomainName MyLocalHostName # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts My questions are: *) Should I use the static IP assigned by my ISP or on the router? Or is the above correct? *) Can / should the local domain name (used in /etc/hosts) be different from the domain name of the website(s) that I am hosting? ie, using MyLocalDomainName rather than domainname I have registered for my website. If I should use the registered domain name, how do I handle hosting multiple domains on this server? Which domain name would I use? *) How does this differ from what is saved in /etc/hostname? What if these values differ? Who uses /etc/hostname? *) My current /etc/hostname contains the single line: MyLocalHostName.MyLocalDomainName Is that correct? Thanks for your help. Matt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
