Stat IP setting hostname
 

I'm going to go read up on hostnames, DNS and all that other good stuff in a minute but I gotta ask. I'm in the middle of setting up Fedora Core 2 and I'm at a loss for what to set for my hostname. I have a static IP address that I am assigning to my linux box so I set that along with a netmask of 255.255.255.0 I've got my gateway and my DNS addresses set up but I have no idea what to do for my hostname. Can I just put whatever or leave it blank or what?

Get yourself a free domainname from dyndns.org

Then be creative and give the machine a unique host name. Something like core, or silver or whatever.

Then ur machine's host name will be real-world and looks something like:
core.mydomain.dyndns.org or silver.mydomain.ath.cx

All depends ;)

Jestah

Ok, I'm still clueless. :rolleyes:

I got a Static DNS from DynDNS.org so now I have my static IP address set to servemo.dyndns.org

When I run ifconfig I get

inet addr:216.27.177.163 Bcast:216.27.177.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

my hostname is set to servemo. SHould I change it to servemo.dyndns.org? I tried changing it using hostname -v servemo.dyndns.org but that didn't seem to take or change anything.

Dengit, I though I had an idea of what I was doing...:scratch:

Forgot to add, I didn't install Gnome or KDE. The computer I'm using right now really crawls if I use either, so Xwindows it is.

*Boink*

Guess that's what I get for posting so late at night...

Your host name has nothing to do with your "realworld" site name. You can name your box anything you like, and still run websites or whatever to a different name. Making your hostname the same as your site name gives no benefits whatsoever.

As the people ahead of me posted, it basically is a matter of choice, what even name suits your fancy is fine, and won't effect anything.

Peace,
JimBass