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TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Sorry to hijack — does my server name need a tld at the end? I’ve received both a yes and a no thus far. My server name currently has no tld but I’m not sure if that is what is preventing me from federating, or if it’s just bad practice or something.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
No problem.
Overall, purely technically, no. This has to be the hostname of the computer the Conduit is running on. And it can be in the local network (LAN) with your own name.
But practically, yes. Because you must buy a domain name and point that domain to the server localtion (IP address). And the only global domain names available to register have TLDs :).
So, yes.
TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I’m still trying to understand this. I have “example.tld” but when configuring the server name, just used “example”, no tld
You’re saying that my server name in fact needs to be the full “example.tld”?
Thanks for the help.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Yes, your server needs to be full domain name. Otherwise, when typing a username (like @myusername:myserver.com) other servers would need to know where that myserver.com is.
Conduit needs to know it’s domain Because it is part of usernames.
h3ndrik@feddit.de 1 week ago
Defibitely the whole server name. Other servers and clients can’t guess that information. I think it’s properly documented how to do it.
TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee 1 week ago
In the mariushosting tutorial I followed a tld was not used. mariushosting.com/how-to-install-synapse-on-your-… Step 14