[gentoo-user] Domainname

[gentoo-user] Domainname

[Timothy A. Holmes]

Hi folks;

Must be my day for questions today :)

Since the 2006.1 CD came out, I am finding that setting the domain name
in the domainname file aparently does not work any more. What is the
proper way to set this now?  Im having difficulty tracking it down, and
im not seeing it in the net.example.  Can someone please point me in the
right direction?

TIM


Timothy A. Holmes
IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
 
Medina Christian Academy
A Higher Standard...
 
Jeremiah 33:3
Jeremiah 29:11
Esther 4:14


-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Domainname

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 13 October 2006 15:24, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Hi folks;
>
> Must be my day for questions today :)
>
> Since the 2006.1 CD came out, I am finding that setting the domain
> name in the domainname file aparently does not work any more. What is
> the proper way to set this now?  Im having difficulty tracking it
> down, and im not seeing it in the net.example.  Can someone please
> point me in the right direction?

It's now set in /etc/conf.d/net

The process is fully documented in /etc/conf.d/net.example and the old 
domainname file is deprecated (or is that obsoleted?)

alan
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Domainname

[Neil Bothwick]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 433 bytes --]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:43:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> It's now set in /etc/conf.d/net

And has been discussed at great length on this list over the last few
weeks.

> The process is fully documented in /etc/conf.d/net.example and the old 
> domainname file is deprecated (or is that obsoleted?)

Obsoleted, it no longer works.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Earlier, I didn't have time to finish anything. This time I w

[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --]

Re: [gentoo-user] Domainname

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Friday 13 October 2006 16:10, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:43:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > It's now set in /etc/conf.d/net
>
> And has been discussed at great length on this list over the last few
> weeks.
>
> > The process is fully documented in /etc/conf.d/net.example and the
> > old domainname file is deprecated (or is that obsoleted?)
>
> Obsoleted, it no longer works.

Well, I'm not using /etc/domainname, but I had the same problem in a 
recent 2006.1 install (only a single ethernet interface, eth0).

------------------------------------------
# cat /etc/conf.d/net

# comments removed
config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 30"

dns_domain_lo="my.domain"   # as per the handbook
------------------------------------------
# cat /etc/conf.d/hostname
# /etc/conf.d/hostname

# Set to the hostname of this machine
HOSTNAME="saturn"
------------------------------------------
# cat /etc/hosts

# comments removed

# IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
::1     localhost
------------------------------------------
# cat /etc/resolv.conf

# Generated by dhcpcd for interface eth0
nameserver 10.0.0.1
------------------------------------------

With the above setup, hostname -d and dnsdomainname were failing 
with "Unknown host", and the login prompt was showing "This is 
saturn.unknown_domain".

I tried setting dns_domain_eth0="my.domain" in /etc/conf.d/net, with no 
luck. As the comment in that file notes, for this explicit dns domain 
setting to work, dns_servers_eth0 must be set, which it is not, since I 
get the dns server address from dhcp. 

So, I edited again /etc/conf.d/net, added the "nodns" option to the 
dhcp_eth0, and set the dns_server_eth0="10.0.0.1" and the 
dns_somain_eth0="my.domain" lines. Still no go.

I noticed that my DHCP server does not send a domain name to che client, 
but only an IP address and a DNS address (as can be seen 
in /etc/resolv.conf). However, if I edit /etc/resolv.conf and add 
a "domain my.domain" line, hostname -d still does not work.

I tried changing the order of options in /etc/nsswitch.conf 
and /etc/host.conf, still with no result.

Of course, after each of these changes did a full reboot to test them, 
even though a restart of eth0 could probably have been enough. And, 
after seeing the failure, I restored all the chianges to the previous 
state.

Eventually, I edited /etc/hosts and added a line reading

10.0.0.14   saturn.my.domain   saturn

and everything started working. Seems like, on this box, dnsdomainname 
and agetty (or, more likely, glibc's lookup routines) only 
read /etc/hosts.

The solution I found is clearly a workaround, since no doc I have read 
mentions that the programs that read the dns domain name rely 
on /etc/hosts, and I'd like to know if the result can be obtained in a 
cleaner way. I read all the notes in /etc/conf.d/net.example. Did I miss 
something?

Thanks for any help.
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list