From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 4 5:52:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (d141-119-162.home.cgocable.net [24.141.119.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2278D37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 05:52:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: from localhost (genisis@localhost) by x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f64CvwC49143; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:57:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com: genisis owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:57:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-X-Sender: To: Bob Hall Cc: Subject: Re: Changing the domain name In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010704085700.F48882-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Bob Hall wrote: > uname tells me that my domain name is 'my.domain'. If I try to set up > DNS to use any other domain name, I get an error message from named > saying that the name is bad, regardless of the hostname setting in > /etc/rc.conf. I think I set this when I was trying to get PPP to > work, with the idea that I could change it later. Unfortunately, I've > made so many changes in so many files while I've been learning how to > install and configure FreeBSD that I can't remember where I set this. > I been going through the documentation for hours and can't find where > to set this. Does anyone know where the domain name is set? Hi Bob, As the superuser: hostname name_you_want Cheers, Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message