hostname vs domainname

Chuck Mead csm at lunar-linux.org
Sat Mar 27 12:49:04 GMT 2004


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Remco Lubbers wrote:
| Op Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:55:02 +0100 schreef Couannette aan Lunar general
| discussion list <lunar at lunar-linux.org>:
|
|
|>I don't see any subject of trouble here :)
|
|
| let me refrase my question:
| if my FQDN is "server2.domain.nl", how should my /etc/domainname and
| /etc/servername be setup?
| My logic would be:
|
|
|>>[/etc/hostname]
|>>server2
|>>[//etc/hostname]
|>>
|>>[/etc/domainname]
|>>domain.nl
|>>[//etc/domainname]

The real problem with this is that the "domainname" command outputs an
env. variable which is used for NIS not for DNS.


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csm
Lunar Linux Project Lead
Disclaimer: "I am not a curmudgeon! No... really..."
Addendum: "Bwahahaha! Fire up the orbital mind-control lasers!"
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