Re: domain name of debian

[John Summerfield]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
 

NIS domain name may be in /etc/defaultdomain (to my surprise).  More 
usually, it's in /etc/yp.conf
   

It's _never_ in /etc/yp.conf - always in /etc/defaultdomain.
The name is an inheritance from Sun, they invented NIS and
on Solaris the NIS domainname is stored in /etc/defaultdomein.
 

_I_ checked before I posted. I've used yp for years. here's what the man 
page says:
yp.conf(5)                                                          
yp.conf(5)

NAME
      /etc/yp.conf - NIS binding configuration file
DESCRIPTION
      The file /etc/yp.conf is read from ypbind(8) at startup or when 
receiv-
      ing signal SIGHUP.  The entries  are  used  for  the  initial  
binding.
      Valid entries are

      domain nisdomain server hostname
             Use  server  hostname  for the domain nisdomain.  You 
could have
             more then one entry of this type for a single domain.

there's more, I'll leave you to check:-)
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