On Friday 13 October 2006 16:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:43:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It's now set in /etc/conf.d/net > > And has been discussed at great length on this list over the last few > weeks. > > > The process is fully documented in /etc/conf.d/net.example and the > > old domainname file is deprecated (or is that obsoleted?) > > Obsoleted, it no longer works.
Well, I'm not using /etc/domainname, but I had the same problem in a recent 2006.1 install (only a single ethernet interface, eth0). ------------------------------------------ # cat /etc/conf.d/net # comments removed config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) dhcpcd_eth0="-t 30" dns_domain_lo="my.domain" # as per the handbook ------------------------------------------ # cat /etc/conf.d/hostname # /etc/conf.d/hostname # Set to the hostname of this machine HOSTNAME="saturn" ------------------------------------------ # cat /etc/hosts # comments removed # IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost ------------------------------------------ # cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by dhcpcd for interface eth0 nameserver 10.0.0.1 ------------------------------------------ With the above setup, hostname -d and dnsdomainname were failing with "Unknown host", and the login prompt was showing "This is saturn.unknown_domain". I tried setting dns_domain_eth0="my.domain" in /etc/conf.d/net, with no luck. As the comment in that file notes, for this explicit dns domain setting to work, dns_servers_eth0 must be set, which it is not, since I get the dns server address from dhcp. So, I edited again /etc/conf.d/net, added the "nodns" option to the dhcp_eth0, and set the dns_server_eth0="10.0.0.1" and the dns_somain_eth0="my.domain" lines. Still no go. I noticed that my DHCP server does not send a domain name to che client, but only an IP address and a DNS address (as can be seen in /etc/resolv.conf). However, if I edit /etc/resolv.conf and add a "domain my.domain" line, hostname -d still does not work. I tried changing the order of options in /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/host.conf, still with no result. Of course, after each of these changes did a full reboot to test them, even though a restart of eth0 could probably have been enough. And, after seeing the failure, I restored all the chianges to the previous state. Eventually, I edited /etc/hosts and added a line reading 10.0.0.14 saturn.my.domain saturn and everything started working. Seems like, on this box, dnsdomainname and agetty (or, more likely, glibc's lookup routines) only read /etc/hosts. The solution I found is clearly a workaround, since no doc I have read mentions that the programs that read the dns domain name rely on /etc/hosts, and I'd like to know if the result can be obtained in a cleaner way. I read all the notes in /etc/conf.d/net.example. Did I miss something? Thanks for any help. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
