hostnaming a server.
 

whats up everyone-
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I just needed some help in giving my server a hostname.

QUERY:

How do I go about doing this and how should I name it??
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My server says this is not a qualified hostname.
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Thanks in advanced for any suggestion :)
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>>BLACKHOLE<<

>>BLACKHOLE<<

2006-(-_+)

a hostname like "bob" is only a local host name. bob.example.com is an fqdn, a fully qualified domain name, as it goes back to a valid tld, .com in this case.

btw, can i request you drop some of the extraneous formatting from your posts... makes them very hard to read...

hey guys-
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QUERY:

Is the hostname the same as the ESSID networkname?

Also being that I have DSL does my ISP issue me a dynamic hostname or do I make up one myself?
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>>BLACKHOLE<<

>>BLACKHOLE<<

2006-(-_+)

Your hostname is only ever going to be used by systems on your own LAN, so any old name will do. If you have bought/registered a domainname and either use DDNS or have static IP, then you can assign a publicly known name for your server (and that can be different from your internal name)

e.g.
My apache server is called "fred" and I gave it a fqdn fred.internal.mydomain.com
My broadband-ISP gave me static IP, and my modem/firewall has a port forward rule to send everything for port 80 (http) to fred.internal.mydomain.com
My domainname-ISP has www.mydomain.com registered to my static IP

So at home my hostname is fred or fred.internal.mydomain.com, but everyone on the internet sees it as www.mydomain.com (only for web browsing though)

BTW, my Wifi access point has myname"lan" as the SSID, if thats what you mean by ESSID.

Thanks for the detailed explanation ojnab. I was really confused about this hostname business.
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Now I can move a bit further :)