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 1GDdOi-0006W0-0i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:38:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7H8aLtU020593; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:36:21 GMT Received: from hetzner.email-server.info (new.email-server.info [213.133.109.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7H8WEwZ031656 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:32:14 GMT Received: by hetzner.email-server.info (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2DF6139977; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:34:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Tests: AWL=0.079,BAYES_00=-2.599 X-Spam-Contact: Contact Address X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3-gr1 (2006-06-01) on hetzner.email-server.info X-Spam-Relays: Trusted=, Untrusted=[ ip=88.130.95.174 rdns=mue-88-130-95-174.dsl.tropolys.de helo=!192.168.1.244! by=hetzner.email-server.info ident= envfrom= intl=0 id=AF14439971 auth= ] X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Bayes: Score=0.0000, Tokens=Tokens: new, 20; hammy, 116; neutral, 66; spammy, 4., Hammy=0.000-+--schrieb, 0.000-+--UD:conf, 0.000-+--H*M:mid, 0.000-+--H*r:sk:mue-88-, 0.000-+--H*RU:sk:mue-88-, Spammy=0.965-5--teenager, 0.895-+--H*r:sk:hetzner, 0.877-+--life, 0.868-+--Remember X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3-gr1 X-Spam-Externals: DCC Brand "_DCCB_", Result _DCCR_ - Pyzor=_PYZOR_, RBL _RBL_ Received: from [192.168.1.244] (mue-88-130-95-174.dsl.tropolys.de [88.130.95.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hetzner.email-server.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF14439971 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:33:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44E42983.9080401@mid.email-server.info> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:32:03 +0200 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060728) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname References: <44E37755.5010800@gt.rr.com> <200608170931.05187.hans-gunther.borrmann@rz.uni-freiburg.de> In-Reply-To: <200608170931.05187.hans-gunther.borrmann@rz.uni-freiburg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1f07aa95-2945-4697-8cb5-c9f6feb1be2a X-Archives-Hash: 3c4492b8cbde701cfbb2efd019ba02f2 Hans-Gunther Borrmann schrieb: > On Wednesday 16 August 2006 21:51, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: >> As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used >> and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname. >> domainname now returns "(none)" >> >> /etc/conf.d/net.example talks about setting up dns_domain but if this is >> used, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf. >> >> So how is the domainname now set? >> >> Tony > > in /etc/resolv.conf Nope. resolv.conf doesn't have any influence on the hostname or domainname. It controls, how names/ips are resolved. If it would be as you say, what would be my domainname? alexander@knospe:~/tmp/sources/samba/samba-3.0.22/source/utils$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search bei.digitalprojects.com nameserver 192.168.1.1 > (man resolv.conf). NAME resolv.conf - resolver configuration file The "domain" setting doesn't do what you say. [...] domain Local domain name. Most queries for names within this domain can use short names relative to the local domain. If no domain entry is present, the domain is determined from the [...] See? It's for "queries for names". Alexander Skwar -- Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. -- Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studies" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list