Re: [fetchmail-users] Local FQDN

[Dave C. <dc...@do...>]

Rob Funk wrote:
> Dave Coventry wrote:
>   
>> Rob MacGregor wrote:
>>     
>>> Change the system's hostname, ie so that "hostname" provides
>>> "myhostname.mydomain.de" rather than just "myhostname".
>>>       
>> I have never really understood how this works. Surely "mydomain.de"
>> would have to be registered first?
>>     
>
> Not if you pick one that can't be registered, e.g. mydomain.local.
>   
I'm assuming that it does not need to have .com or .de? I mean the 
British domain names are .co.uk, or org.uk or .me.uk or .gov.uk, would 
these work okay? Could I make one up, say .dave.uk? What is the program 
looking for in a FQDN?
> Or even better, register your own domain and make a local subdomain under 
> that.  :-)
>   
How do you mean? If I have registered the domain name localbuz.com, 
surely the DNS system locates that to a particular server on the web. 
When you say subdomain, presumably you mean something like 
baynet.localbuz.com? Would it be possible to locate this on another server?

Many thanks,

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