On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 12:31 PM Tim via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-04-21 at 11:47 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > > perhaps in the meantime you could outline how to configure my setup > > for your simler, /etc/hosts approach? > > I suppose that before going into masses of technicalities, what does > your system actually *need* to do? > really, just serve http,https, and dns as necessary. > a) We know you're intending to serve pages from a webserver from your > computer, that doesn't require any of the DNS server malarkey you've > been trying to handle. But will require passing HTTP and HTTPS > connections through from the outside world to your webserver. > i have probly been making a mountain out of an ant hill, ... > > b) You have a public domain name. Your registrar can handle public > queries for its data, and doesn't need to know anything about your > internal LAN addresses. Your local network can either use its own DNS > server, or you can use the hosts file, and it doesn't really need to > know anything about your public addresses. Since you said you only had > one computer, then the hosts file is more than adequate for local > addressing queries on the same machine. > this simplistic option was unknown to me. > My /etc/hosts file has just these two lines in it: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 > localhost4.localdomain4 > ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 > localhost6.localdomain6 > > They handle the localhost numerical IP and named addresses, and various > other aliases that some people expect to be used, but I've never seen. > The format is each line begins with a numerical IP address, the > associated hostname, then any extra aliases. Any queries for the > numerical IP for any of those aliases will return the IP at the start > of the line. Any queries for what name belongs to an IP will return > the first name in the list. > > It could also include other local IPs and name: > > e.g. 192.168.1.1 mycomputer mycomputer.example.com > 192.168.1.254 myrouter router.example.com > > You don't have to do that, but if you want to simply associate > hostnames and IP addresses for other things on your LAN, you can do it > like that. > > c) I don't know what you're doing with letsencrypt, to tell what it's > requirements will be. > i can renew my letsencrypt cert as soon as my dns is coherent(it was choking on an address lookup for my domain). > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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