On Wednesday 31 March 2004 01:57 am, Vineet Kumar wrote: -------------------------------STUFF SNIPPED----------------------------- > Is there any way your system would know that its name should > be qualified with advance-computing.com? You may want to > check /etc/resolv.conf for a line like > > domain advance-computing.com > > or > > search advance-computing.com > > With that, your system will get 216.87.145.170 when > attempting to resolve "brutus". Then it will get > "brutus.advance-computing.com" when looking up > 216.87.145.170, so that will be your system's FQDN. > > Another option which will have a similar effect is to not > touch resolv.conf but change that /etc/hosts line to > > 216.87.145.170 brutus.advance-computing.com brutus > > This will still allow your system to figure out the right > FQDN. Editing resolv.conf has the advantage of allowing you > to refer to other hosts in your domain by their short names, > though. > > good times, > Vineet -----------------------------REPLY------------------- Sorry I didn't reply sooner but I have been off the list for a while. However I figured out the answer by myself. But you are exactly correct so your reply might help someone else. What is really interesting is that this was a test install using the new netinst images for sarge and I found that this install really only sets up a desktop for a single user system. It skips all of the "server" stuff in depreciation of speed & simplicity. That is not mentioned in the setup menu or docs. I have since sent this comment to the developers. Thanks Vineet! -- John Foster
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