From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GOsgM-0005QN-8Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:11:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8H9AiMD026328; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:10:44 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8H96Jwa021833 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:06:20 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAE064580 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:06:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15123-06 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:06:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB7E6646B3 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:06:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GOsbD-0006lx-WE for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:06:04 +0200 Received: from mue-88-130-100-246.dsl.tropolys.de ([88.130.100.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:06:03 +0200 Received: from listen by mue-88-130-100-246.dsl.tropolys.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:06:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Alexander Skwar Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the new "domainname" situation? Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:05:58 +0200 Organization: =?UTF-8?B?LsK3Lg==?= Message-ID: <2113116.7W0IOBjgZ5@m-id.message-center.info> References: <450CCF71.7020007@veldy.net> <1878303.AA6ZmqbnTS@m-id.message-center.info> <20060917092136.17053e2d@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mue-88-130-100-246.dsl.tropolys.de User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.57 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.029, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.57 X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k8H9AiMR026328 X-Archives-Salt: be1c803a-0fcc-4d99-81f2-77542928c72a X-Archives-Hash: 3a71493233e3983bcb96c5dd76833201 =C2=B7 Neil Bothwick : > 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. >=20 > I can think of a couple of uses for this. >=20 > 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 --=20 You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. -- Franklin P. Jones --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list