Re: URGENT how to change your domain name
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
> On Sat, 16 May 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > Actually it is in a few dozen places. it is in your MTA config
> > eg /etc/smail/config, it is in your news server probably if you have
> > one, and other places as well.
>
> Perhaps we ought to come up with some policy for this -- store an
> /etc/hostinfo file which contains names, ip addresses, and domain names
> which refer to the current host, and require that all programs who need
> to find the hostname read it, or that their config utils read it.
> Changing hostnames and dns names is a pain ...
This would make life difficult for me. My machine is pick.sel.cam.ac.uk
(go and look at the website, please :) ), but when posting news I have to
be mcv21@cam.ac.uk (UCS rules). So having separate config files is better
for me.
Yours,
Matthew
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