On Sat, 12 Nov 2016, Glenn English wrote: > Thanks all. It's been quite a ride. Now everybody write it down: it > has nothing to do with what's in /etc/hosts or /etc/resolv.conf. There > has to be a live, accessible DNS server for the domain somewhere. At > least at slsware.org there does.
Maybe for the install. But the whole thing really doesn't need any DNS servers *as long as* everything you need is resolved statically by some module in /etc/nsswitch.conf... such as the default "files" module, which reads /etc/hosts. At which point, it boils down to a complete enough, correct /etc/hosts > It does seem that /etc/hosts should work, though... It does work, provided that you have "files" first in the list of NSS modules, and you have both the nodename and the FQDN in /etc/hosts for the correct IPs and in the correct order. Otherwise, it depends. > No, I take it back. I don't think DNS is the whole story. It worked in > this case, but how does the installer get a domainname? The *installer* either asks the user for the FQDN and gets the nodename, domain name and FQDN from that (and it *should* write them to /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname appropriately), or gets information from DHCP/DHCPv6 and the DNS while autoconfiguring. Now, *what* the DHCP/DHCPv6 and DNS will answer, well, that's up to your local network. -- Henrique Holschuh