Machine Naming Question
 

If I am going to run a webserver from my home (register a domain "mylinuxserver.com" and use free dns routing to my ip) and I am want to use CentOS as my linux machine......When I install the CentOS software and it comes time to name my machine, do I name it "mylinuxserver.com"? I have attached a picture of what I am talking about. In the picture it says "localhost.localdomain" that is what I want to know if I should change to "mylinuxserver.com" or not.

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Thanks for any help!

it doesn't matter one bit ;)

If that is the only domain name you want to attach to that server, then yes, use that hostname.

I am asking because I setup a test webserver with the name of "test.testing" and when I visit the apache server sometimes it routes to "test.testing" instead of "myhomelinuxserver.com"?????

So if I was to use this machine for web related purposes then naming it the hostname "myhomelinuxserver.com" is ideal?

Can I use a naming scheme like "www.myhomelinuxserver.com" and then have a machine called "ftp.myhomelinuxserver.com" or have two machines "www.myhomelinuxserver" and "ftp.myhomelinuxserver"?

Name it whatever you feel like naming it.

So there is no standard way? or way you should if you are in a hosting enviroment?

that would do.
however, personally, i just call my machines whatever pops up at the time i name it. for example, my primary server is called kafka, and i've got another machine i'm setting up as a backup called inculta
just call your machines what you like ;) www and ftp would be just fine

That name it is asking for is put /etc/sysconfig/network. Really does not matter, it is used for mostly samba name for a server and some in /etc/hosts file. Not really a DNS item. DNS is different animal than the basic /etc/hosts file. You can look at your /etc/host.conf to see sequence used to resolve a name to IP

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