From: Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the new "domainname" situation?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:05:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2113116.7W0IOBjgZ5@m-id.message-center.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060917092136.17053e2d@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
· Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>:
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:50:28 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> But I agree, it makes no sense to even be able to set this per
>> interface.
>
> I can think of a couple of uses for this.
>
> A laptop with wired and wireless interfaces. wired is only used on the
> "home" network, with a fixed domain. wireless is used in multiple
> locations with the domain set via DHCP.
Okay. But what's the domainname, when both NICs are "connected"?
> A server with multiple interfaces, running different domains on each,
> although this could also be done with virtual hosts.
Hm? I don't get this. For NICs, there are no domainnames. And Virtual
Hosts only exist in the context of webservers. In this context, I don't
see how this makes sense.
Alexander Skwar
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-17 4:30 [gentoo-user] What is up with the new "domainname" situation? Thomas T. Veldhouse
2006-09-17 5:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 8:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-17 9:05 ` Alexander Skwar [this message]
[not found] ` <20060917102431.76c4dbba@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>
2006-09-17 9:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 11:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2006-09-17 12:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 13:48 ` Mick
2006-09-17 14:45 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2006-09-17 16:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 17:35 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-09-17 19:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
[not found] ` <450D8B18.8010706@veldy.net>
2006-09-17 19:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 19:36 ` [gentoo-user] Re: " Drew
2006-09-17 16:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Timothy A. Holmes
2006-09-17 17:30 ` Richard Fish
[not found] ` <450D88F6.1080508@veldy.net>
2006-09-17 19:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-18 12:47 ` Mick
2006-09-18 13:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-18 20:12 ` Mick
2006-09-19 8:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-19 12:51 ` Thomas T. Veldhouse
2006-09-19 20:06 ` Mick
2006-09-24 10:31 ` Mick
2006-09-17 23:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Ryan Tandy
2006-09-18 15:35 ` Sigi Schwartz
2006-09-18 16:29 ` Ryan Tandy
[not found] ` <87hcz6u2cz.fsf@newsguy.com>
2006-09-17 12:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
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