[Gllug] Where is the defualt domain name kept

[Xander D Harkness]

If you are using a redhat system it is in /etc/sysconfig/network 

Cheers
Xander


On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 11:35, Paul Brazier wrote:
> > What file contains the default domain name, e.g. the domain 
> > my linux box is 
> > in. For example my pc is called gromit it's internet address is 
> > gromit..bournemouth.ac.uk, at the moment my machine only thinks it is 
> > gromit.localdomain
> > 
> > James
> 
> Did you get an answer to this? 
> 
> /etc/hosts seems to often have localhost.localdomain in it by default.
> I thought this is just for hostnames though?
> Perhaps it's only the DNS that knows about domain names?
> I'm not sure if having a dial-up connection changes things because your
> domain name might change depending on which ISP you dial.
> 
> I've noticed that the hostname seems to pick up the first name from the
> last line in my /etc/hosts (I've set up several alias hostnames to test
> Apache virtual domains). I noticed in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit it says:
> "HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`" but this is a binary so I've not looked in to
> how it works.
> 
> I think you can do all the hostname/domain name setting in linuxconf but
> it is nice to know what files it uses behind the scenes.
> 
> 
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