Eric on 22 Oct 2009 12:57:10 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] hostname fqdn not working as I'd expect


Austin:

Gee, that was straightforward :-)

I've done a "sudo apt-get remove nis" as well since nis is superfluous

Thank you.

Eric

Austin Murphy wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> "domainname" is not the DNS domain, it's the NIS domain.  You want
> "dnsdomainname" which you probably have already and don't need to
> install NIS.
>
> Fixing the /etc/hosts entry to include your FQDN should fix your problem.
> 10.10.10.2   ursa.lucii.dnsalias.org  ursa
>
> Check out "man hostname".
>
> Austin
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Eric <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
>   
>> My Ubuntu 8.10 workstation is giving me a pain in the network
>>
>> After fixing the config for nullmailer I started getting emails that
>> were being sent out by my own system.  A lot of these are bounces
>> because the "from" address is root@ursa.ursa    Why is that?
>>
>>
>> root@ursa:~# hostname
>> ursa
>> root@ursa:~# hostname --long
>> ursa
>> root@ursa:~# hostname --fqdn
>> ursa
>> root@ursa:~# domainname
>> lucii.dnsalias.org
>>
>> So, how come the options --long or --fqdn don't give the right answer?
>> Is this related to the ursa.ursa thing?
>>
>> NOTE:  I have set this workstation to use a static IP address:  10.10.10.2
>> NOTE: The command: domainname
>>  prompted me to install NIS.  I had a problem binding to YP
>>  until I edited /etc/default/nis and swapped true and false for
>>  the NISSERVER and NISCLIENT variables per this:
>>    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1257868
>> [Why do I even NEED NIS?  I have a server on my network that handles
>> DNS... shouldn't that cover it?]
>>
>> Here is /etc/hostname:
>> root@ursa:~# cat /etc/hostname
>> ursa
>>
>> Here is  /etc/hosts:
>> root@ursa:~# cat /etc/hosts
>> 127.0.0.1       localhost
>> 10.10.10.2      ursa
>> 10.10.10.1      polaris
>>
>> Here is /etc/resolv.conf:
>> root@ursa:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf
>> # Generated by NetworkManager
>> domain lucii.dnsalias.org
>> search lucii.dnsalias.org
>> nameserver 10.10.10.1
>>
>>
>> TIA for any information.
>>
>> Eric
>>
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