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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: host & domain
To: gism@isot.isot.com (Global Internet Shopping Mall)
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 10:09:36 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199607290943.EAA12788@isot.isot.com> from Global Internet Shopping Mall at "Jul 29, 96 04:43:18 am"
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Global Internet Shopping Mall writes:
> In case of name1.name2.com, is it safe to assume, that the host is name1 and
> the domain is name2.com in all cases at /etc/sysconfig???
> 

Any host/domain names used in /etc/sysconfig must be in /etc/hosts.
Host/domain names that are not in /etc/hosts can not be resolved
until the network is up and the network can not be brought up till
the host/domain names in /etc/sysconfig are resolved.

Also, "hosts" must appear before "bind" in /etc/host.conf.  This
is not the default.

Since you have to put name1.name2.com in /etc/hosts, you will know
whether name1 is a host or a domain.

John Capo                                                   jc@irbs.com
IRBS Engineering                       FreeBSD Servers and Workstations
(954) 792-9551                 Unix/Internet Consulting - ISP Solutions