Re: [gentoo-user] "hostname -d" returns no domainname

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Friday 26 May 2006 10:09, Alexander Skwar wrote:

> Hello!
>
> alexander@blatt ~ $ hostname -d
> alexander@blatt ~ $ cat /etc/conf.d/domainname
> # /etc/conf.d/domainname
>
> # When setting up resolv.conf, what should take precedence?
> # If you wish to always override DHCP/whatever, set this to 1.
> OVERRIDE=1
>
> # To have a proper FQDN, you need to setup /etc/hosts and
> /etc/resolv.conf # properly (domain entry in /etc/resolv.conf, and
> FQDN in /etc/hosts). #
> DNSDOMAIN="bei.digitalprojects.com"
>
> # This only set what /bin/hostname returns.  If you need to setup NIS,
> meaning # what /bin/domainname returns, please see:
> #
> #   http://www.linux-nis.org/nis-howto/HOWTO/
> #
> NISDOMAIN="bei.digitalprojects.com"
>
> alexander@blatt ~ $
>
> Why does "hostname -d" not return a domainname? I would have
> thought, that the "DNSDOMAIN" setting in combination with
> "OVERRIDE=1" would set a DNS domain.
>
> Why's that not so?
>
> The system gets configured using dhcp, using dhcpcd.

I seem to remember that this was somehow related to /etc/hosts, look:

# cat /etc/hosts
10.0.0.10  mybox   mybox.my.domain

# hostname -d
#
# (modify /etc/hosts)
# cat /etc/hosts
10.0.0.10  mybox.my.domain   mybox

# hostname -d
my.domain

Don't know whether dhcp changes all this.
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