Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:49:45 -0400 From: Bob Hall <rjhalljr@starpower.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing the domain name 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>
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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
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
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