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Before you configure PMDF, you should give some thought to what your official local host name should be. This is not just a matter of picking a name for your system. If you want to communicate with systems on the Internet, your system needs to be registered as a member of some network domain. In order to be eligible for registration, you must have a connection to a system on the Internet that is able to perform name server functions for you.
If you are using PMDF in an isolated (non-Internet) application, you can pick any system name you want. However, remember that networks have a way of growing and becoming more visible. At some point in the future, you could regret a careless decision about naming conventions you made earlier. Try to pick a sane, sensible name that is appropriate for your users, system, and site.
If you have chosen a TCP/IP hostname already, you could use that name as your official local host name. Alternately, you could use a more generic e-mail hub name for your official local host name. Should you choose to do the latter, the PMDF configuration generator will also need to know your TCP/IP hostname. When it prompts for that name, it will supply a default answer.
The PMDF configuration generator attempts to provide default values to the prompts. These defaults are obtained, whenever possible, from your system environment. |
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