On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:32, Alexander Skwar wrote: > 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".
and from where does my machine get its domain name? It is only contained in resolv.conf. urmel ~ # hostname urmel urmel ~ # dnsdomainname ruf.uni-freiburg.de Gunther -- ________________________________________________________________ Hans-Gunther Borrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg Hermann-Herder-Str. 10, D79104 FREIBURG Tel.: +49 761/203-4652 Fax: +49 761/203-4643 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
