Hi, hostname = name of the host
FQDN = Fully Qualified Domain Name In hostname you are not dealing with domains, but just with the host regardless to the "internet" addressing. Look what man hostname tells: "hostname will print the name of the system as returned by the gethostname(2) function." gethostname() : "These functions are used to access or to change the host name of the current processor." So, hostname give you the name of the host, hostname -f the fqdn resulting from the valure returned by getdomainname() So, you put in /etc/hostname only the pure name of the host and it has nothing to do, *directly* with dns resolution. Try to put just your hostname in /etc/hostname and comment it out in /etc/host and you won't be able to ping the hostname (unless you have it in a dns record). What I mean, from my point of view, is that /etc/hostname is more a label for the host the system is running on than a piece of dns resolution. Oh, well, directly. Giorgio Il Friday 19 September 2008 19:05:53 Jonathan Jesse ha scritto: > Is the answer to this is normal or is the answer to just edit the name in > /etc/hostname? > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Soren Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:00:13PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > > > Is this normal behaviour, and is the recommendation to have the > > > /etc/hostname set to just the server name (without the domain)? > > > > Yes. > > > > -- > > Soren Hansen | > > Virtualisation specialist | Ubuntu Server Team > > Canonical Ltd. | http://www.ubuntu.com/ > > > > -- > > ubuntu-server mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
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