On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 06:18:34PM +0100, Peter Prohaska wrote:
do I have to put the FQDN in here?
In /etc/hostname, you just have to put the machine name, not the FQDN, eg
machine.
And where is that information used for if I've got that /etc/hosts file
to handle local lookups.
/etc/hosts
Peter Prohaska writes:
do I have to put the FQDN in [/etc/hostname]?
No.
And where is that information used for if I've got that /etc/hosts file
to handle local lookups.
It tells your machine what its own name is.
If I have two interfaces with different IP-adds, it is also possible that
hi,
do I have to put the FQDN in here?
And where is that information used for if I've got that /etc/hosts file
to handle local lookups.
If I have two inferfaces with different IP-adds, it is also possible that
my host is known with two different names, isn't it? So whats his hostname
then?
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