On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, John Maheu wrote: > Having just had a cable modem installed on my home machine I > find I can't telnet/ftp to most machines. I can't ftp to > ftp.debian.org. I know my domainname is not > correct, and the dnslookup is causing the problem. How can I fix this? > How do I change my domainname on a debian system?
To configure shaw properly and fully in debian you need to use the dhcpc-beta packages. Edit /etc/dhclient.conf and put something like: send host-name "csxxxxxx-x"; Where the CS bit is your 'CS' number, this will be the name the install tech gave to your windows setup. A bit ago shaw was having a trouble with their DNS, they had names that reverse resolved but did not forward resolve. If you got such an IP then I suggest you phone and complain! You can check this by doing something like: host x.x.x.x.x host <the name the above returned> They sould return each other. The dhcpcd package does not seem to send the right host name and I couldn't figure out how to fix it.. It does work but you get the wrong IP range.. You don't need to change your debian machines domain name.. Jason
