[TriLUG] down, but not^h^h^h defeated

[Greg Brown]

For no reason other than I didn't set the thing up in the first place 
and the I'm now just having to deal with it.

Can someone PLEASE explain to me WHY CentOS WILL NOT allow you to set a 
hostname then obtain the domain information from DNS?

Here's now it works (and it does work, I've tested it) under RH 7.1:

1. install
2. set hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network (do not put domain info, just 
hostname)
3. plug machine into network
4. reboot
5. rejoice, vtcmail.gc.lucent.com is resolvable by other machines

Do the same thing with CentOS.. doesn't work.  Set the hostname after 
reading the hostname man page.. doesn't work.

NOTHING works!

BAH!!!

Greg


On Friday, Aug 13, 2004, at 08:49 US/Eastern, Turnpike Man wrote:

> Why does a mail server get a DHCP address?!  Static is the only way to 
> go for
> servers, static IP, hard coded DNS (no dynamic), etc.
>
> David M.
>
> --- Greg Brown <gregbrown at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, among other things there were DNS gremlins at work at Lucent
>> today partially leading to my inability to get mail into the box.  The
>> lucent mail edge processor box is on one network while the mail server
>> is on another network.  The mail server got a new DHCP address from 
>> the
>> local server and what I think happened was the DNS server on the edge
>> network may not have known the ip address of the new server.
>>
>> Oh well, I'm heading back there tomorrow to see if I can fix 
>> everything.
>>
>> Fun.
>>
>> Greg
>>
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