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



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'.

Doug.



what does hostname -f show? uname -n will always show the just the hostname.



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