On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 14:12 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> fredex wrote:
>
> My machine is assigned by dhcp, is in a private IP corporate space, with a
> corresponding domain (not .local). Should the machine name be set to FQDN,
> or just short version? I noticed that if in system-config-network I choose
> to manually set machine name to FQDN version, it doesn't seem to update to
> DNS server - but if I use short version DNS is updated - so it looks like I
> have to set machine name to short version. Then it seems everything is
> working, including NFS. I'm concerned though, because I though FQDN was
> preferred for hostname.
Yeah, understand that FQDN is the 'whole' name...like your own first
AND last name. Using the short name relies on /etc/hosts or DNS to look
up the long name to make it happen.
When assigning the name, for example, in /etc/hosts, be sure to put
the IP address, FQDN, then aliases following that. As far as I know,
this is a universal syntax for /etc/hosts.
If it's being assigned by DHCP, you'll need to tell DHCP what the
name(s) are for the machine, that's all.
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