Re: server setup question

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!
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