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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: Re: Re: What is up with the new "domainname" situation?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:35:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060919093510.7153f2c4@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609182112.37762.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

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On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:12:13 +0100, Mick wrote:

> > /etc/issue sets the login output. A \o in there is replaced by the NIS
> > domain, \O by the DNS domain.  
> 
> # cat /etc/issue
> This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t
> 
> So, it should read my DNS domain name.  But it doesn't.
> 
> > > Unlike Alex's earlier example I do not need to set up DNS servers
> > > addresses, or other IP addresses as these are picked up by the
> > > dhcpcd server from my hardware router.  

Have you set the dns_domain in conf.d/net?

> i.e. as far as my laptop is concerned the router (192.168.0.1) is the
> dns server.
> 
> > Does your router set the domain correctly? What does "hostname -d"
> > give?  
> 
> I'm afraid it gives nothing!

It sounds like dns_domain is not set.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Ralph's Observation - It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object
to realize that you are in a hurry.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-19  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-17  4:30 [gentoo-user] What is up with the new "domainname" situation? Thomas T. Veldhouse
2006-09-17  5:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17  8:21   ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-17  9:05     ` Alexander Skwar
     [not found]       ` <20060917102431.76c4dbba@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>
2006-09-17  9:49         ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 11:45     ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2006-09-17 12:43       ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 13:48         ` Mick
2006-09-17 14:45           ` Kevin O'Gorman
2006-09-17 16:59             ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 17:35               ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-09-17 19:02                 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
     [not found]               ` <450D8B18.8010706@veldy.net>
2006-09-17 19:05                 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 19:36                 ` [gentoo-user] Re: " Drew
2006-09-17 16:19           ` [gentoo-user] " Timothy A. Holmes
2006-09-17 17:30             ` Richard Fish
     [not found]           ` <450D88F6.1080508@veldy.net>
2006-09-17 19:02             ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-18 12:47               ` Mick
2006-09-18 13:17                 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-18 20:12                   ` Mick
2006-09-19  8:35                     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2006-09-19 12:51                       ` Thomas T. Veldhouse
2006-09-19 20:06                         ` Mick
2006-09-24 10:31                         ` Mick
2006-09-17 23:15           ` [gentoo-user] " Ryan Tandy
2006-09-18 15:35             ` Sigi Schwartz
2006-09-18 16:29               ` Ryan Tandy
     [not found]       ` <87hcz6u2cz.fsf@newsguy.com>
2006-09-17 12:45         ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar

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