[gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

[gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

[John covici]

I am having problems setting the domain name of a new gentoo
installation.  I looked at /etc/conf.d/net.examples and tried what
seemed to me what they were looking for such as
DNS_LO="<domain name>"

The host name works, although I would like to not have it wipe out my
resolv.conf.  I can set hostname to the fully qualified name using the
hostname command, but gentoo still says unknown domain name when I log
in, so I am not sure this is correct.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

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Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

[Daniel Pielmeier]

2007/1/21, John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>:
> I am having problems setting the domain name of a new gentoo
> installation.  I looked at /etc/conf.d/net.examples and tried what
> seemed to me what they were looking for such as
> DNS_LO="<domain name>"
>
> The host name works, although I would like to not have it wipe out my
> resolv.conf.  I can set hostname to the fully qualified name using the
> hostname command, but gentoo still says unknown domain name when I log
> in, so I am not sure this is correct.

try something like this in /etc/conf.d/net

dns_domain="<domain-name>"
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Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

[Daniel Pielmeier]

> Will this keep my /etc/resolv.conf in tact?

On my system, yes, but backup /etc/resolv.conf and try it out with
restarting /etc/init.d/net.eth0.
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Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

[Andrey Gerasimenko]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:45:01 +0300, John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>  
wrote:

> I am having problems setting the domain name of a new gentoo
> installation.  I looked at /etc/conf.d/net.examples and tried what
> seemed to me what they were looking for such as
> DNS_LO="<domain name>"
>
> The host name works, although I would like to not have it wipe out my
> resolv.conf.  I can set hostname to the fully qualified name using the
> hostname command, but gentoo still says unknown domain name when I log
> in, so I am not sure this is correct.
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>

After I set the host name in /etc/conf.d/hostname (so that  
/etc/init.d/hostname could set it on startup), set the domain name with  
#domainname, and allowed it to be resolved to 129.0.0.1 in hosts, the log  
in screen started to show the correct host and domain.

It looks like the login screen displays the FQDN whenever it can be  
resolved.

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Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

[Daniel Pielmeier]

maybe the dns_domain setting is wrong i have this in my config but iam
not sure if this really sets the domainname

you can also try setting this in /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.0.1       hostname,domain-name hostname
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Re: [gentoo-user] setting system's domain name

[Daniel Pielmeier]

sorry it should be

> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 127.0.0.1       hostname.domain-name hostname

Hostname and domain-name must have a full stop in between.
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