Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:01:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Bob Hall <rjhalljr@starpower.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Changing the domain name Message-ID: <20010704115907.E49949-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <v04220800b768cc779d66@[66.44.59.226]>
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On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Bob Hall wrote:
> >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);
Something's overwriting it then. If it's not in /etc/rc.conf, how about
/etc/hosts ? What's the output of plain old "hostname" run without any
arguments?
Dru
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