What hostname do you use on your computer?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:

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> Knute Johnson wrote:
>> Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:
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>>>> Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:
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>>>>>> If I set my computer to localhost.localdomain then I can relay
>>>>>> mail just fine.  What do you do if you don't have a fixed IP?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>> hang on....frazmtn.com links to Frazier Mountain Internet Service
>>>>> is this you or your ISP?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> frazmtn.com is my ISP.  I have a couple if fixed IPs, one of which is
>>>> hosted as sagebrush.frazmtn.com.
>>>>
>>>
>>> have you thought of having an internal dns setup? For the relaying to
>>> work you'd need to have a dns record for the workstation and at the
>>> moment this machine is not 'resolvable'.
>>> Why don't you just give a hostname that is not a fqdn if you don't run a
>>> DNS server?
>>>
>>> - --
>>> (o<    Thierry Sayegh De Bellis, RHCE
>>
>> OK, so if I just set the hostname to 'knute' then what do I want in my
>> hosts file, /etc/hosts file and in my /etc/sysconfig/network files?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> assuming the machine has a static IP (on your LAN)
> /etc/hosts looks like
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> <your IP> 	knute
>
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=knute
>
> hth

Some programs may like to have a defined domain name.  For my nonroutable 
home network, I use localdomain as the domain name (IIRC, a reserved name 
for nonroutable domains).  Thus:

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
<your IP>     knute knute.localdomain

/etc/sysconfig/network:
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=knute.localdomain

It's possible that may resolve some DNS lookup issues, though I'm not 
guaranteeing anything.
-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs