I recently had some trouble with the hostname on my box and was wondering if I had things set up right.
At boot, when networking comes up, hostname is run on a file which set the hostname to 'home'. If I understand right, this should not b the fully qualified domain name. Then in resolv.conf there is the line 'domain spencerogden.com'. I'm not running a nameservers, so when I run `hostname -f` to get the fqdn it sems like it hit my ISPs name servers to resolve home.spencerogden.com, which resolves to my IP address. I was suprised that it hit the name servers, I thought it would just concatenate the domain onto the hostname and call it quits. The trouble came when my net connection went down, `hostname -f` no longer worked because it couldn't reach a name server. This cause X and KDE to load very slowly because they check the hostname several times during startup, and they were just timing out. I guess the question is this. This seems like a very precarious situation. Should I be doing something different? SHould I be running a nameserver locally? Maybe I'm just dumb for trying to set this kind of thing up manually... Spencer _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
