Dark,
  Creating the names on the subnet you are using shouldn't be a hassle.
To you or anyone else, since it is on an unrouted subnet (192.168)  Only
time it would be a problem is if you ever try to go to a real domain
named darkforce.com ... you'll keep getting your box.  (Yes I've seen
that happen years ago..) But heck ya gotta name em sumpin.  :)

James


On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 08:50, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 September 2002 12:00 am, you wrote:
> > when you say set up, do you mean a dns server or a local /etc/hosts file on
> > the 192.168.0.1 machine, if the latter then 'darkforce2.com' will
> > definitely not be treated the same as 'darkforce2' unless you have set it
> > up
> > deliberately to be so, when you ping the other machine do you use .com or
> > not; why .com anyway? is that a domain you own or just an internal fiction,
> > 'cos the mail program won't care about that per se
> >
> > bascule
> 
> Hi bascule. Yes, I believe that you would have to call it, as you say, "a 
> fiction".
> 
> I can ping the machines anyway, so that:
> 
> ping darkforce
> ping darkforce.com
> ping 192.168.0.1
> 
> all work. Just seemed handier, thats all. I did want to have the IP address 
> in numerical form, because from what I've read, that can be found when a lot 
> of other stuff isn't working.
> 
> Do you think this would cause a problem somewhere? It doesn't seem to have so 
> far.
> 
> Thanks for all your advice!
> 
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