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Date:      Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:57:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To:        Bob Hall <rjhalljr@starpower.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Changing the domain name
Message-ID:  <20010704085700.F48882-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04220800b768b97124d1@[66.44.68.55]>

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On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Bob Hall wrote:

> uname tells me that my domain name is 'my.domain'. If I try to set up
> DNS to use any other domain name, I get an error message from named
> saying that the name is bad, regardless of the hostname setting in
> /etc/rc.conf. I think I set this when I was trying to get PPP to
> work, with the idea that I could change it later. Unfortunately, I've
> made so many changes in so many files while I've been learning how to
> install and configure FreeBSD that I can't remember where I set this.
> I been going through the documentation for hours and can't find where
> to set this. Does anyone know where the domain name is set?

Hi Bob,

As the superuser:

hostname name_you_want

Cheers,

Dru


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