localhost for me??

[cotfessi]

With the help of some of the postings and the NHFs I've been able to set up my linux box, add a new hard drive, setup apache, and a IP updater so that I can maintain a static domain name on a dynamic IP connection - so a big thanks to the LNO cmmunity.

As mentioned above, i registered a domain name and currently run through centralinfo.net to maintain my domain with my dynamic ip address. There is a little perl script that runs via cron to check for and update my IP. Anyways, I searched through the forums here and found some stuff related to this question, but nothing really on this topic: Can I now change my localhost,localdomain to my registered domain name? I can run a telnet session from a friends computer to mine using "telnet myNewDomain.com", so it seems as though it might recognize it as such? If this is possible, How would I go about doing it?

Thanks in advance.

-cotfessi

[ph34r]

You can use anything you want for the hostname of your machine - I use s71.home .

In Apache's config tho, you will want to enter the server name as www.yourdomain.tld (http://www.yourdomain.tld) or whatever...

[mindwarp]

Edit the DNS record..

whatyourhostname IN A your.ip.address

then when you type:
telnet whatyourhostname.yourdomainname.com

it will go to your.ip.address