On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
Padmaja R wrote:
Hi, thanks for the reply, I sometime back changed the hostname using the /etc/sysconfig/network only. However, that only has 2 lines in it- Networking=Yes, Hostname=sipx.com
Where can I edit the dnsdomainname and domainname variables? I do not see those variables in /etc/hosts or /etc/sysconfig/network.
Thank You
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:41 PM, mkn0014 mkn0014@gmail.com wrote:
Padmaja R wrote:
Hi all,
I am running centos 5.1 and I wish to change the domain name and dnsdomainname of my PC. currently the settings are--
$ hostname sipx.com http://sipx.com $ hostname --fqdn sipx.com http://sipx.com $ domainname (none) $ dnsdomainname com
I have searched in the net for tips but everywhere only the hostname change is provided. I need to change/set the domain name and the dnsdomain name on my pc to sipx.com http://sipx.com and this should be a permanent one across system reboots. Please let me know how to do this. The domain name settings are required for a networking/ SIP telephony applications that I am running but it is internally in the LAN, so I think the name sipx.com http://sipx.com if chosen as my pc's domain name will not cause any conflict with the external domain names in the Internet.
Thank You
Edit /etc/sysconfig/network
Restart
IF you have 3 names in your host name it will work ... it will not work with just 2 names.
you need host.domain.com
right now, your host is sipx ... you have NO DOMAIN NAME except .com
you can easily then also set and alias in /etc/hosts to sipx.com ... and also use an alias in apache as well.
If you use a proper FQDN with 3 names then everything will "JUST WORK" ....
Take this name that I use: myth.home.local
$ hostname myth.home.local
$ hostname --fqdn myth.home.local
$ dnsdomainname home.local
Note: use also used the domainname command, that command has nothing to do with dns names, but with "the system's NIS/YP domain name".
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Hi all, Thanks for the replies with the dnsdomainname settings, it works fine now, I would however, like to set the domainname (not the dnsdomainname) as well which is also called the NIS/YP domainname. Please let me know how.
Thanks, Padmaja