What is my FQDN?

[Hans Troost]

Hi all,

I'm a Win7 home user using VBox 5.x.x (newest) to play around with setting up several webbased systems, mostly on linux hosts (Ubuntu-flavour). Some of these require the ability to send email, etc.

When installing/configuring these software packages (e.g. Drupal, CiviCRM, wordpress or whatever) and configuring supporting apps like exim4, postfix etc. I'm often prompted for a FQDN (I know the meaning).

Question: what to fill in, in my situation:

• - home user connected to an isp
  - do not own a domain name
  - windows not in a domain but in a workgroup (e.g. "wgname")
  - ubuntu setup with static IP (in my case 192.168.0.102)
  - using bridged networking
  - everything (like shared folders) working fine
  - LAMPserver running and showing Apaches-screen when accessing from host with FF
  - guest name e.g. "linguest"

So: when prompted for a FQDN, what should I answer? Something like linguest.wgname(.something)?

Or do I have to take special measures before these installs/configurations?

Hope someone can guide me a bit

Regards, Hans Troost

[Rootman]

Chances are you have none. Not being on a MS domain you typically would only have a hostname. Sometimes it might be passed from your ISP through your router but typically not.

Run this at a command line: ping -a localhost

If it returns only the host name then you have no FQDN.