Hostname in 8.04

[Giorgio Zarrelli]

Hi,

hostname = name of the host

FQDN = Fully Qualified Domain Name

In hostname you are not dealing with domains, but just with the host regardless to the "internet" addressing.

Look what man hostname tells:

"hostname will print the name of the system as returned by the gethostname(2) function."


gethostname() :
"These  functions  are  used to access or to change the host name of the
current processor."

So, hostname give you the name of the host, hostname -f the fqdn resulting from the valure returned by getdomainname() 

So, you put in /etc/hostname only the pure name of the host and it has nothing to do, *directly* with dns resolution. Try to put just your hostname in /etc/hostname and comment it out in /etc/host and you won't be able to ping the hostname (unless you have it in a dns record).

What I mean, from my point of view, is that /etc/hostname is more a label for the host the system is running on than a piece of dns resolution. Oh, well, directly.

Giorgio


Il Friday 19 September 2008 19:05:53 Jonathan Jesse ha scritto:
> Is the answer to this is normal or is the answer to just edit the name in
> /etc/hostname?
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Soren Hansen <soren at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:00:13PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> > > Is this normal behaviour, and is the recommendation to have the
> > > /etc/hostname set to just the server name (without the domain)?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > --
> > Soren Hansen               |
> > Virtualisation specialist  | Ubuntu Server Team
> > Canonical Ltd.             | http://www.ubuntu.com/
> >
> > --
> > ubuntu-server mailing list
> > ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server
> > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/attachments/20080919/0c97f3f5/attachment.html>