19 Jul
2007
19 Jul
'07
9:12 p.m.
On 7/19/07, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:
The name of the machine in /etc/hosts is TomSlick.xyz.com TomSlick (for example). the name of the machine in /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=TomSlick.xyz.com
Note both are upper case:
Yet when I login as root the prompt is showing me tomslick in lower case not a combo upper lower.
Correct. DNS is not case sensitive.
I have grepped /etc and below for tomslick and cannot find why this machine name is not a combo of upper and lower case.
Because your system is following the RFC.
I have never ran into this before. Where is this???
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc4343.html
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