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



On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:58:28PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:39:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > 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:
> > > > > /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.
> > 
> 
> Looking at man 1 hostname, it looks like /etc/hostname is just the short
> hostname.  The FQDN comes from /etc/hosts.

yeah, I was only responding to the 'uname -n' part above... unless i
misunderstand. I thought you were saying that changing /etc/hosts
doesn't change the output of 'uname -n' and I was responding that
/etc/hostname should. But, I clearly don't know what's going on in
this thread so ignore me ;)

> 
> The question isn't "how do I set a domain name" (unless it goes
> somewhere in addition to hosts) but rather, should I?
> 
> I've had one response from someone who does.  Is there anyone who
> _doesn't_?

huh. interesting.

A

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