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* Re: [gentoo-user] hostname and domainname
  @ 2007-02-19 11:46 99%       ` Bayrouni
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From: Bayrouni @ 2007-02-19 11:46 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Etaoin Shrdlu a écrit :
> On Monday 19 February 2007 12:12, Bayrouni wrote:
> 
>> I added this line in /etc/conf.d/net:
>> dns_domain_lo="MY_DOMAIN"
>>
>>
>> I restarted the net.lo  but still the same result:
>> # domainname
>> (none)
>>
>> # hostname and hostname -f
>> MY_HOST
>>
>> My DNS server is running but it works only as dns cache server.
>>
>> So, do I need to configure it as DNS for this machine and the others
>> in LAN to have hostname and domainname commands working correctly?
> 
> Ok, then you probably need to add your host's FQDN to the file /etc/hosts 
> (eg, a.b.c.d   myhost.my.domain   myhost). I found it to be the only 
> method to have hostname -f working.



Yes, after adding a.b.c.d  myhost.my.domain myhost in /etc/hosts,
hostname --> myhost
and hostname -f -->  myhost.my.domain
:)

but domainname --> (none)

Anyway, thanks for you and all others

Bayrouni


> Since the handbook does not mention this, I'm still thinking that I'm
> probably missing something, but even a fresh install has the problem
> until the /etc/hosts workaround is applied.


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