Domain name

The Internet domain name allows your network to fit into a hierarchical network structure composed of commercial organizations (.com), educational institutions (.edu), the government (.gov), the military (.mil) or miscellaneous organizations (.org). The domain name is also used when routing messages, such as mail, from machine to machine. Example domain names are sco.com (the domain name used by SCO) and berkeley.edu (the domain name used by the University of California at Berkeley).

Base your domain name choice on the following:

• If other machines on your network already use a domain name, use the same name for the machine you are installing.

• If you are creating a new domain and want to use BIND to connect to the outside world, you must register the name as described in ``Obtaining a domain name and an IP network number''.

• If you are creating a new domain and might or might not eventually connect to an outside network, use the name name.UUCP, where name is the name of your company or organization.

• If you will never attach to a network outside your organization, choose a suitable name such as company.com, replacing company with the name of your company.

See also:

• ``Configuring Domain Name System (DNS) servers''