Hostname and Server Name

[Erich Carlson]

Well for starters, are you using IP Pointing from your domain name
registrar?

Also, if you want to give your computer a hostname, then put that
hostname in /etc/hosts/

 format: local ip: hostname.com

Erich

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:44 -0700, Janu Sundaram wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to setup a server which should provide services as a
> webserver , email server , ftp server .I have registered a domain for
> myself and it is something like www.domain.com .Now when I setup
> Fedora 3 , and assign static ip address , is hostname something I
> should not worry about can I type something I like? .What is server
> name ?, I typed servername in HTTP configuration ,and when I tried to
> access the server from another comp using the servername it did not
> work it works only through ip address.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong here ?
> 
> Janu
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