From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed Jul  4  7:49:54 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.61])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F210C37B401
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed,  4 Jul 2001 07:49:49 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from rjhalljr@starpower.net)
Received: from 66-44-54-142.s142.tnt1.lnhva.md.dialup.rcn.com ([66.44.54.142])
	by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #2)
	id 15HnyO-0000PI-00 
	for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 04 Jul 2001 10:49:48 -0400
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Sender: rjhalljr@pop.starpower.net
Message-Id: <v04220800b768cc779d66@[66.44.59.226]>
In-Reply-To:
 <20010704085700.F48882-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>
References:
 <20010704085700.F48882-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:49:45 -0400
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Bob Hall <rjhalljr@starpower.net>
Subject: Re: Changing the domain name
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
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

Thanks, but that doesn't work. Editing /etc/rc.comf, either manually 
or with sysinstall doesn't work. Any of the above followed by 
rebooting doesn't work. uname continues to print 
"root@staunton.my.domain". If localhost.rev contains any domain name 
other than 'my.domain', named tells me the name is bad and local DNS 
won't work.

I've tried
    # sethostname("staunton.bodd_der.net", 21);
but I got a message about misplaced parentheses. Apparently, I 
haven't learned how to decipher the man pages yet.
    sethostname(const char *name, int namelen);

Bob Hall

**** Majordomo@hpc.uh.edu
>>>>  Know thyself? Absurd direction!
**** Command 'know' not recognized.
Drat. I wanted a list server and got an epistemological skeptic instead.
MySQL maillist secret passwords: sql query database 

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message