Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 04:14:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> 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'.
> 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 ;)
That was in response to the suggestion to add localdomain to the
127.0.0.1 line, which doesn't change anything related to uname.
Doug.
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