Todd Lyons wrote: > > Praedor Tempus wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:18:14PM -0500 : > > OK, I want to change the name of my laptop from the default > > localhost.localdomain to lapdog.ravenhome.net. Looking at the manpage for > > hostname, it mentions: /etc/init.d/boot, /etc/hostname, and > > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 as where/how hostname is set. Uh-uh! Does not does not! > > vi /etc/sysconfig/network > HOSTNAME="lapdog.ravenhome.net" > DOMAINNAME="ravenhome.net" > > Note that you either need to have: > 1) a DNS server that returns authoritative info for the ravenhome.net > domain, especially the host lapdog. If you are using 192.168.* or 10.* > or 172.16/20 IP addresses, then you need to have a nameserver that > provides different answers based on where the name query originates > from. > -OR- > 2) Configure it in /etc/hosts of all machines that need to access it > directly. > I think Praedor has seen all these answers before but I am not sure if he is following all the steps. Try the above again, and do not forget to *add* (not replace) to file "/etc/hosts" the fqdn. Maybe this time, if it does not work, you can provide us with specific error msgs in your logs.
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