Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
John L Fjellstad wrote: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John L Fjellstad wrote: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dnsdomainname is in /etc/resolv.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search demo.room nameserver 192.168.9.4 nameserver 192.168.8.1 [EM

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John L Fjellstad wrote: > >>John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> >>>dnsdomainname is in /etc/resolv.conf >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf >>>search demo.room >>>nameserver 192.168.9.4 >>>nameserver 192.168.8.1 >>>[EMAIL PR

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-25 Thread John Summerfield
David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 13:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, dom't all try it. Play with this if you must. host -t mx freddy.portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu host -t mx computer.my.domain.net yields: No such domain (Authoritive answer)! Well! hos

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-25 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 13:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No, dom't all try it. Play with this if you must. > host -t mx freddy.portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu host -t mx computer.my.domain.net yields: No such domain (Authoritive answer)! Well! host -t mx my.domain.net.

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-25 Thread John Summerfield
David Baron wrote: OK--I have a dynamic DNS to my.domain.net, for example. Now the hostname ends up being computer.my.domain.net. If I want use email to users on this system, how do I set up exim4 and what would be the address? [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends. Don't tell anyon

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-24 Thread David Baron
OK--I have a dynamic DNS to my.domain.net, for example. Now the hostname ends up being computer.my.domain.net. If I want use email to users on this system, how do I set up exim4 and what would be the address? [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 24 August 2004 15:36, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-24 Thread John Summerfield
John L Fjellstad wrote: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dnsdomainname is in /etc/resolv.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search demo.room nameserver 192.168.9.4 nameserver 192.168.8.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hostname -f Dolphin.demo.room [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I don't

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dnsdomainname is in /etc/resolv.conf > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf > search demo.room > nameserver 192.168.9.4 > nameserver 192.168.8.1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hostname -f > Dolphin.demo.room > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I don't think so: [EMA

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Hood
Shu Hung (Koala) asked the simple question: > where does the domain name of a debain stored? > is there anyway to change it? The "domain name" of the local host is the part of its fully qualified domain name (FQDN) that follows the first dot. The FQDN of the local host is its canonical host name

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-24 Thread John Summerfield
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: NIS domain name may be in /etc/defaultdomain (to my surprise). More usually, it's in /etc/yp.conf It's _never_ in /etc/yp.conf - always in /etc/defaultdomain. The name is an inheritance from Sun, they invented NIS and on Solaris the NIS domainname is stored i

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-24 Thread David Baron
"domainname" will display it. "domainname my.domain" will set it. Question is, what does this mean. I would like email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be delivered to the user mailbox. If I do this with an exim4 "mail" command (I had routers set), this may work. If I send such email through "outsid

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Rus Foster wrote: > >> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> where does the domain name of a debain stored? >>> is there anyway to change it? >> >> >

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-23 Thread Alexis Huxley
> where does the domain name of a debain stored? > is there anyway to change it? I presume you mean DNS domain, not NIS domain. I think it is derived from looking up the name of the host, which is in /etc/hostname. E.g: my /etc/hostname contains 'dione'. my /etc/resolv.conf s

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-23 Thread John Summerfield
Rus Foster wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 where does the domain name of a debain stored? is there anyway to change it? Try edit /etc/domainname or /etc/hostname depending on what you want to acheive Rus dnsdomainname is in /etc/r

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-23 Thread Shu Hung (Koala)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I want to modify the domainname part but there is no /etc/domainname Rus Foster ??: | On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: | |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 |> |> where does the domain name of a debain stored? is there anyway to

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-23 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 where does the domain name of a debain stored? is there anyway to change it? Try edit /etc/domainname or /etc/hostname depending on what you want to acheive Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330