<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>I've always just picked a name from a theme and have not used a given domain name on my LAN.</div><div>Once I used fish as a theme - sunfish, perch, musky, bluegill, ...</div><div><br></div><div>I use my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter as my DNS and DHCP server and assign given IPs.</div><div>Then I set up the /etc/hosts files to reflect the IPs I give to my known hosts.</div><div>I start below the </div><div>127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost</div><div>::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6</div><div></div><div>section and add my declarations</div><div>e.g.</div><div>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.</div><div>172.20.100.129 bluegill</div><div>172.20.100.254 ubiquiti fw musky</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Connecting to the other hosts on the LAN is as easy as </div><div>$ ssh bluegill</div><div>or from a browser</div><div><a href="https://bluegill">https://bluegill</a></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 13:28 -0600, o1bigtenor wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>Greetings</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I would like to setup a server that is for in house use only. This is</pre><pre>not for outside use.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>So I'm trying to understand what is a good way to setup the hostname</pre><pre>for the server.</pre><pre>Do I use localhost?</pre><pre>Do I use example.com?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Is there some other way to refer to something like a communication/info server?</pre><pre> For this thinking maybe something like using the lan NAT address</pre><pre>for the machine.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I'm not even sure I'm asking the question 'right' and the 'web' is</pre><pre>being singularly unhelpful!</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>TIA</pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota</pre><pre><a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a></pre><pre><a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a></pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote></body></html>