From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 22 15: 5:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8192015036 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:05:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 13832 invoked by uid 0); 22 Apr 1999 22:03:03 -0000 Received: from pmcl-pc10.ph.utexas.edu (HELO pmclp10.ph.utexas.edu) (128.83.155.120) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 22 Apr 1999 22:03:03 -0000 X-Sender: kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.2 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:03:33 -0500 To: "Matthew Amelin" From: Kevin Weiss Subject: Re: domain name Cc: become@ici.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <8525675B.006D9AAC.00@leia.alpinecsi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <19990422220540.8192015036@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:58 PM 4/22/99 -0400, you wrote: >How can I tell (with a command) what my domain name is? > >I put my host machine name as jabba and domain yoda > >but in files like named.boot and mydomain.db are asking for > >things like my.domain and the host.my.domain > >would my.domain be jabba.yoda or jabba.yoda.net or just >yoda? > whew! oh boy, uhm, check the O'Reilly Book "DNS and BIND"; also edit your host info in /etc/local.rc <--I think this is the file? I'm not at home right now, sorry also in the named.boot under primary is there a " . " after >my.domain like this " my.domain. " > > hope you can't understand my jargon! don't worry, I can't :-) >could you please send the email also to become@ici.net job's done To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message