Re: Domain name to use on home networks

[Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>]

Le 27/10/2023 à 18:45, John Hasler a écrit :
> Erwan writes:
> > Here are the first lines of 'man domainname" :
> That doesn't help very much with no hint as to what NIS is and that it
> isn't relevant to DNS.

it is said later in the man


Don't use the command domainname to get the DNS domain name because it 
will show the NIS domain name and not the DNS domain name. Use 
dnsdomainname instead. See the warnings in section THE FQDN above


so for someone who do not know NIS it seems clear that "domainname " is 
for something else.