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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:38:40
Message-Id: 44E42983.9080401@mid.email-server.info
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname by Hans-Gunther Borrmann
1 Hans-Gunther Borrmann schrieb:
2 > On Wednesday 16 August 2006 21:51, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
3 >> As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used
4 >> and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname.
5 >> domainname now returns "(none)"
6 >>
7 >> /etc/conf.d/net.example talks about setting up dns_domain but if this is
8 >> used, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf.
9 >>
10 >> So how is the domainname now set?
11 >>
12 >> Tony
13 >
14 > in /etc/resolv.conf
15
16 Nope. resolv.conf doesn't have any influence on the hostname or
17 domainname. It controls, how names/ips are resolved.
18
19 If it would be as you say, what would be my domainname?
20
21 alexander@knospe:~/tmp/sources/samba/samba-3.0.22/source/utils$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
22 search bei.digitalprojects.com
23 nameserver 192.168.1.1
24
25 > (man resolv.conf).
26
27 NAME
28 resolv.conf - resolver configuration file
29
30
31 The "domain" setting doesn't do what you say.
32
33 [...]
34 domain Local domain name.
35 Most queries for names within this domain can use short names relative to the
36 local domain. If no domain entry is present, the domain is determined from the
37 [...]
38
39 See? It's for "queries for names".
40
41 Alexander Skwar
42 --
43 Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when
44 you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
45 -- Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studies"
46 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname Hans-Gunther Borrmann <hans-gunther.borrmann@×××××××××××××××.de>