On Friday 22 August 2008 09:14, Bernd Wurst wrote:
> On a debian system, you don't need to append the domain to
> /etc/hostname. Am am not a Debian admin but I have access to a debian
> machine with this config, verified this immediately. :) So there must
> be a way to specify the domain name the system lives in.
Hi
The answer to this one probably lies in /etc/hosts where I'm guessing
the FQDN is found.
From "man 1 hostname" on a Debian Etch system (and, I suppose, most
other Linux platforms as well):
THE FQDN
You can’t change the FQDN (as returned by hostname --fqdn) or the
DNS domain name (as returned by dnsdomainname) with this
command. The FQDN of the system is the name that the resolver(3)
returns for the host name.
Technically: The FQDN is the name gethostbyname(2) returns for
the host name returned by gethostname(2). The DNS domain name
is the part after the first dot.
Therefore it depends on the configuration (usually
in /etc/host.conf) how you can change it. Usually (if the hosts file
is
parsed before DNS or NIS) you can change it in /etc/hosts.
Best regards,
Frederik Dannemare
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