On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:07:32AM -0700, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote: > Douglas, > > dt> Now you're using shaw.ca for your home domain. Do you own that? Would > you like to e.g. relay mail for all of shaw.ca? > > Not really. > > OK, I've invented the domain name petershouse; > the current hosts file follows. Please let me know of any > remaining errors. > > Isn't there a place to specify the domain, analogous to /etc/hostname? > Unfortunate that these matters aren't mentioned in the hosts > man page. Also, I wonder that /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, > /etc/network/interfaces and perhaps a few other files haven't > been amalgated into one. Excessive fragmentation increases > the likelihood of confusion and error. Hhmm, not really. /etc/network/interfaces is for configuring your *interfaces* and is Debian specific. /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts are traditional *nix and serve a different purpose (yes I know they are all related to the network, but still ...). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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