I've always just picked a name from a theme and have not used a given domain name on my LAN.Once I used fish as a theme - sunfish, perch, musky, bluegill, ... I use my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter as my DNS and DHCP server and assign given IPs.Then I set up the /etc/hosts files to reflect the IPs I give to my known hosts.I start below the 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localho st::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6section and add my declarationse.g.If I leave the first 128 available as non-assigned, and have DHCP give out addresses to 172.20.100.0/24, then unknown hosts get one of the first 128 IPs.172.20.100.129 bluegill172.20.100.254 ubiquit i fw musky Connecting to the other hosts on the LAN is as easy as $ ssh bluegillor from a browserhttps://bluegill I also create ufw rules on my LAN machines that, for example, only allow ssh from 172.20.100.0/24 or even more restricted than that like 172.20.100.128/25 or /26, /27, /28, or even /29 depending on which IPs I want to give ssh access to other hosts on the LAN. On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 13:28 -0600, o1bigtenor wrote: > Greetings > I would like to setup a server that is for in house use only. This > isnot for outside use. > So I'm trying to understand what is a good way to setup the > hostnamefor the server.Do I use localhost?Do I use example.com? > Is there some other way to refer to something like a > communication/info server? For this thinking maybe something like > using the lan NAT addressfor the machine. > I'm not even sure I'm asking the question 'right' and the 'web' > isbeing singularly unhelpful! > TIA_______________________________________________TCLUG Mailing List > - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesotatclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20200122/a5a79237/attachment-0001.htm>