Re: Domain name to use on home networks
On 27 Oct 2023 11:45 -0500, from john@sugarbit.com (John Hasler):
>> 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.
The part of the beginning of that man page which Erwan didn't quote
does seem a bit more helpful, though. Quoting the entire NAME section:
> HOSTNAME(1) Linux Programmer's Manual HOSTNAME(1)
>
> NAME
> hostname - show or set the system's host name
> domainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name
> ypdomainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name
> nisdomainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name
> dnsdomainname - show the system's DNS domain name
Even for someone who doesn't know what "NIS/YP" is, that should be a
strong suggestion already that it is _not_ the same thing as "DNS".
(And let's not get into the issue of the term "domain" in terms like
_classless inter-domain routing_.)
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