Re: set domain name

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

"Andrew Critchlow" <a_critchlow@hotmail.com> wrote:

> What's the best way to set the local domain and a debian server?

Use the command 'hostname'. If you want to preserve the change over
reboots edit /etc/hostname


> Also, eveytime I change resolv.conf it gets changed back to something else, could this be because there is a dhcp server running and the interface is configured to accept dhcp?

AFAIK it gets changed if you receive your IP over DHCP. Might happen in
other cases as well, but I don't think running a dhcp server is one of
them.

HTH
Andrei
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