Let's see if I've got this straight...
Debian squeeze gets the host's domain name from the first
non-comment or non-empty line of /etc/hosts?? If it likes
that line??
Not from /etc/hostname and not from the "kernel.domainname = "
line in /etc/sysctl.conf? ("kernel.domainname = example.com" is
that line, commented out, in my recently installed squeeze.)
And not from /etc/resolv.conf? Or does it rely on DNS?
I needed to change a domain name this morning on a computer
I'm working on, and I was told to do those different things
from several different websites. Setting it in /etc/hosts seems
to have worked. Why is this trivial task so obscure?
I must be missing something big time. hostname was coming up with
the right answer, but hostname -f kept saying "Name or service not
known". Can anyone tell me what I've got wrong? And the Debian way
of setting the domain name? (It's working now, AFAIK, but I'd like
to set it correctly...)
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Glenn English
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