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Re: Changing the domain



I think it gets set in /etc/init.d/network

Have a look at that file and see what you find there.


On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Sébastien Phélep wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering about the way one can manually change the domain name of
> a debian system. On other systems, I was used to have an /etc/domain
> file, or something similar, but not with debian.
> I do change the fqdn of my host in the files /etc/hosts and the local
> domain name in /etc/resolv.conf. Is this all I need to change ?
> 
> By the way, we've started with a domain named 'univ-ubs.fr'. As our
> server is now below a firewall, we'd like to use subdomain names, eg
> 'fw-cguvaens.univ-ubs.fr'.
> We encountered problems with our server when sending mail into this
> subdomain. Do we need to change anything in sendmail.cf to make it work,
> or do you think this problem comes from the firewall (it seems that the
> incoming messages pass trough the firewall, but don't go anywhere after
> that; when we send a message from the inside of our subdomain to the
> outside, it works:-().
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Seb.
> 
> 
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