From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GOzR5-00004P-Gn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:24:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8HGNP4K005184; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:23:25 GMT Received: from srvexch-01.mcaschool.local (mail.mcaschool.net [24.239.210.32]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8HGJ6JX031368 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:19:06 GMT Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: What is up with the new "domainname" situation? X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:19:04 -0400 Message-ID: <17CD9CE4C0FA574A8B29EF02D49B385D2A92D0@srvexch-01.mcaschool.local> In-Reply-To: <200609171448.15022.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: What is up with the new "domainname" situation? thread-index: AcbaX8obo9g3pnlwQrqWI4ac919UxgAFNETA From: "Timothy A. Holmes" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k8HGJ6JX031368 X-Archives-Salt: 34356e62-aabc-4200-b526-8307247aaedd X-Archives-Hash: 0d4d57983cd2adec62a6219de3329dc4 > > >> On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:50:28 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > >> > > It makes very little sense to ditch the unix norm of setting a > > >> > > systemwide domain name in favor of doing it per interface! > > >> > > > >> > True. And that's probably why you don't *have* to set it per > > >> > interface. > > >> > > >> Exactly, the current system gives the choice of setting it globally > or > > >> per-interface in the same file. > > > > > > Can you please guide me how to set it up globally? > > > > It's all in /etc/conf.d/net.example. > > > > > I am not sure I can follow > > > the otherwise well commented /etc/conf.d/net. > > > > What problems do you have specifically? > > What did you try? > > What was the expected outcome and what did you get in reality? > > I saw this: # dns_domain_eth0="your.domain" in the /etc/conf.d/net.example > and > added: dns_domain="STUDY" > > but still .none comes up: > > # domainname > (none) > > -- > Regards, > Mick [Timothy A. Holmes] I am not sure if this is related or not, but for some reason, my resolv.conf keeps getting modified, causing samba to fail. I open it and all that is in there is the domain, no name servers. If someone has a solution, please tell me -- my file server is now offline Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list