Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:57:58 -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: <20010704085700.F48882-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <v04220800b768b97124d1@[66.44.68.55]>
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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
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