On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at 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 at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080612/28168689/attachment-0005.html>