Hans-Gunther Borrmann schrieb:
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 21:51, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used
and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname.
domainname now returns "(none)"
/etc/conf.d/net.example talks about setting up dns_domain but if this is
used, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf.
So how is the domainname now set?
Tony
in /etc/resolv.conf
Nope. resolv.conf doesn't have any influence on the hostname or
domainname. It controls, how names/ips are resolved.
If it would be as you say, what would be my domainname?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/sources/samba/samba-3.0.22/source/utils$ cat
/etc/resolv.conf
search bei.digitalprojects.com
nameserver 192.168.1.1
> (man resolv.conf).
NAME
resolv.conf - resolver configuration file
The "domain" setting doesn't do what you say.
[...]
domain Local domain name.
Most queries for names within this domain can use short names
relative to the
local domain. If no domain entry is present, the domain is
determined from the
[...]
See? It's for "queries for names".
Alexander Skwar
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