[TriLUG] /etc/sysconfig/network question

[Marty Ferguson]

My browser met 404 on your link, but let me just say this...
 
Assumption) You are talking ISC's DNS

Depending on which stanza in the DNS config file you 're talking about, 
(sight unseen)
you very well should provide only the host name with no terminal  "."

ISC DNS appends the subdomain/domain name in many instances.  If the 
(404'd) Red Hat page
cites otherwise, then I don't know where to steer you, but if the 
prepoderance of evidence indicates
that you should only provide the hostname, that is probably the solution. 

M

Greg Brown wrote:

>
> Yeah, this is a basic one, but one I'm finding conflicting answers for.
>
> 1. If a computer is on a DHCP network where the hostname, but not the  
> domain information, of that computer is set and typed in during the  
> installation should /etc/sysconfig/network contain the fully 
> qualified  name or just the hostname without the domain info?
>
> i.e. should /etc/sysconfig/network for vtcmail on the network  
> gc.lucent.com read just HOSTNAME=vtcmail or  
> HOSTNAME=vtcmail.gc.lucent.com?
>
> This page at RH seems to indicate it should be the fully-qualified 
> name  yet many other google searches say, no, it should only contain 
> the  fully qualified name:
>
> <"http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/ref-guide/s1- 
> boot-init-shutdown-sysconfig.html">
>
> Right now, the server I'm having so many troubles with has the  
> fully-qualified name in /etc/sysconfig/network
>
> Greg
>