#2369: Set hostname with FQDN
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Reporter: d...@… | Owner: lfs-b...@…
Type: task | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Bootscripts | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution: invalid
Keywords: |
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Changes (by d...@…):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => invalid
Comment:
Eww yuck. I feel as thought I've been caught with my pants around my
ankles. I am very sorry for the wild goose chase. I'm seeing lots of
documentation on this, and almost all neglects to mention NIS. Apparently
when I learned of it years ago, I had used one of these crappy
documentation sources. Official documentation states that hostname and
domainname (as used in /proc/sys/kernel) are NIS/YP hosntname and
domainname, not DNS hostname and domainname.
from Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt:
{{{
domainname & hostname:
These files can be used to set the NIS/YP domainname and the
hostname of your box in exactly the same way as the commands
domainname and hostname, i.e.:
# echo "darkstar" > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname
# echo "mydomain" > /proc/sys/kernel/domainname
has the same effect as
# hostname "darkstar"
# domainname "mydomain"
Note, however, that the classic darkstar.frop.org has the
hostname "darkstar" and DNS (Internet Domain Name Server)
domainname "frop.org", not to be confused with the NIS (Network
Information Service) or YP (Yellow Pages) domainname. These two
domain names are in general different. For a detailed discussion
see the hostname(1) man page.
}}}
Though most configurations would probably use DNS==NIS for domain name now
days, aking that assumption on the user's behalf would not be the right
thing to do.
Closing ticket invalid.
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