I have a RedHat 7.3 box running as a file/everything server here at
work. When I set it up a friend told me that RedHat is not happy unless
it has a full hostname and recommended something like
server.mydomain.com (of course mydomain.com is our actual domain).
We have our domain name and email hosted remotely, and today I had to
upgrade our package to give us some more email accounts. One thing that
we also received was unlimited sub-domains, i.e. anything.mydomain.com,
something.mydomain.com. When I try and connect to other computers on
the internet it, some go through and some are redirected.
For example, trying to get to when trying to ping www.cs.byu.edu
<http://www.cs.byu.edu/> I get a response back from
www.cs.byu.edu.mydomain.com <http://www.cs.byu.edu.mydomain.com/> .
This is very annoying. I have not changed any settings on the Linux
box, the only thing that has changed is our domain name/ email hosting
package to include sub-domains.
To me it appears that it has something to do with the computer being
named server.mydomain.com, but I don't understand the correlation. Do I
need to change this? If so, what should I change it to?
Thanks,
Devlin Daley
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