Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:01:10PM -0700, Jeff D wrote:
> 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 does hostname -f show? uname -n will always show the just the
> hostname.
titan.
If I do need a domain name, then it would be
192.168.1.1 titan.homenet titan
Doug.
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