[WBEL-users] Resetting hostname from command prompt

William Hooper whooperhsd2@earthlink.net
Fri, 9 Apr 2004 11:46:40 -0400 (EDT)


Bill Davidsen said:
> I have always though redhat did the whole name thing wrong. There's a
> reason why there is a hostname and domainname, and the full name should
> be $(hostname).$(domainname) rather than leaving the domainname empty
> and having to strip the domain off the hostname.

IIRC domainname doesn't have anything to do with DNS, instead it is used
for NIS.

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William Hooper