From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 4 12:55:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 977BC37B407 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:55:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjhalljr@starpower.net) Received: from 66-44-63-152.s406.tnt5.lnhva.md.dialup.rcn.com ([66.44.63.152]) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #2) id 15Hsk1-0007iR-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2001 15:55:17 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: rjhalljr@pop.starpower.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3B4331EF.5DBD4FF2@i-clue.de> References: <20010704085700.F48882-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> <3B4331EF.5DBD4FF2@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:55:14 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Bob Hall 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: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >uname -a lists information about the kernel. The hostname displayed >within its output is the host and user who compiled that kernel. The >only way to change that name is to build another kernel on the machine >you want its name to appear. > >HTH >-Christoph Sold Thanks. You proved I was wrong. The output of uname has nothing to do with the problem. I've recompiled, uname doesn't mention my.domain, but named still only accepts my.domain. The following files contain no mention of my.domain. /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf /etc/namedb/named.conf named will accept only my.domain in the following file: /etc/namedb/localhost.rev The output of hostname is staunton.bodd_der.net The output of uname -a is FreeBSD staunton.bodd_der.net 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #1: Wed Jul 4 14:11:20 EDT 2001 root@staunton.bodd_der.net: /usr/src/sys/compile/STAUNTON i386 According to The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Leahy, I'm supposed to put my fully qualified domain name in localhost.rev. When I do that, I get the following error message after HUPing named: host name "staunton.bodd_der.net" (Owner "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa") IN (primary) is invalid This is followed by too many error messages to transfer via the ten-finger interface. Something seems to be mapping 127.0.0 to my.domain, and named won't accept anything else. Does anyone have any idea what file it might be? I've spent the last 24 hours, with about 6 hours off for sleep, searching in the documentation for the answer, and I can't find anything. Bob Hall Know thyself? Absurd direction! Bubbles bear no introspection. -Khushhal Khan Khatak MySQL list magic words: sql query database To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message