On Monday 14 October 2002 12:51 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I just helped my roommate set up Debian on his new computer and > everything is working just fine. Installed using the Woody installer and > immediately updated to the unstable packages. (He likes cutting edge. I > like bleeding edge experimental. :) I've gone through this same process > with 3 other computers in the apartment and every time I've gotten > almost identical results. > > The problem here is name resolution. On all of my other boxen I can > refer to the computers on the network on a "first name basis". > Unfortunately, his computer always wants a FQDN for all computers. So, > whereas I can do an 'ssh gandalf' to connect to my mailserver, he has to > use 'ssh gandalf.theloveshack.local'. I'm sure that there's some very > simple setting somewhere that governs this, but as I have no idea where > it might be, finding it is somewhat difficult. :) TIA for any help. >
use the hosts file for translation. just tab separate the fqdn name and the host name. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
