Am Montag, den 19.12.2005, 13:23 -0800 schrieb Jessica Rasku:
> Heinz Sporn wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 19.12.2005, 03:33 -0800 schrieb Jessica Rasku:
> > 
> >>I am having some problems with setting up my domain name on my new 
> >>gentoo box.  I believe I have everything setup according to the 
> >>handbook, but for some reason hostname -d does not return a domain name 
> >>and just complains that it is not know.  I have this working correctly 
> >>on my older box, but I seem to recall that this was an issue on that box 
> >>as well.  I have domainname and hostname in my default and boot 
> >>runlevels.  This doesn't seem right, but it doesn't seem to be hurting 
> >>anything.  I have setup /etc/conf.d/domainname.  I'm not sure what I'm 
> >>missing.
> > 
> > 
> > If you're not running local DNS /etc/hosts might be the crucial file.
> > What did you put in there?
> 
> I haven't got local DNS running.  The problem is this machine has a 
> dynamic address.  This is the information there.  I'm not sure if that's 
> the problem.  I also don't know how to get dynamic DNS values.  It's 
> something that I want to be able to do.  I am currently running BIND on 
> two machines, but that won't solve this problem.

If you want hostname -f to get a FQDN for your machine you may want to
try the following: 

Say your FQDN is expected to be: myhost.mydoamin.com then you have to
add the following to /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 myhost.mydomain.com myhost localhost

> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> # IPV6 versions of localhost and co
> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
> 
> 
>                                                               Jessica
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