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Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?



On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:12:20PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400
> > Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer
> > > (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by dial-up modem and
> > > providing some services to my network: e.g. dnsmasq, exim4 smarthost,
> > > ntp, but nothing to the internet.  It also runs shorewall for good
> > > measure.  Everything works fine.
> > > 
> > > Samhain complains that the box doesn't have a FQDN.
>  > 
> > > /etc/hosts:
> > > 
> > > 127.0.0.1	localhost
> >   127.0.0.1	localhost localhost.localdomain
> > 
> > should solve the problem of the FQDN.
> > 
> > > 192.168.1.1	titan
> 
> It does not.  uname -n still shows 'titan'.
> 

what about /etc/hostname, requires a reboot, i think.

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