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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Richard Toren <rpt@miles.sso.loral.com>
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Subject: IP domainname ??
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<<On Mon, 4 Sep 1995 10:33:06 -0400 (EDT), Richard Toren <rpt@miles.sso.loral.com> said:

> Simple...
>   Where is the IP (not NIS) domainname taken from during the boot?
> sysctl says my "kern.domainname =    ".

That is the YP domain name.

The Internet domain name is the part of your hostname after the first
dot.  It may also be listed in /etc/resolv.conf, but be aware that the
use of the `domain' directive there is deprecated in favor of
`searchlist'.

If your hostname is not fully-qualified, then something has made an
error in setting up your machine.

-GAWollman

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