Janu, Does your DSL service provide a static IP? (Mine does not.) What is this IP? Can you see your server from the outside world using the IP? Jeff Birt Electronics Engineer Integrated Systems Facility University of Missouri - Rolla 573.341.6058 ________________________________________ From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Janu Sundaram Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:44 AM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Hostname and Server Name 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
