How to set the domainname?

NiceGuy · Guru Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 451 Location: Canada

Hello,

Recently upgraded my gentoo box, noticing that setting the domainname of a box has changed. Could anybody describe where and how (syntactically) I perform this now? Would enjoy further reading on the topic, could only find minimal (very minimal) information on dns_domain or such. Not sure of its relevance.

I upgraded a Gentoo Box dating back to ~2005(aprox).
Thanks
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject:

NiceGuy,

Since that vintage, Gentoo has moved both hostname and domainname into /etc/conf.d
In your pre update they were in /etc

There files themselves contain comments as to what you need to do.
After the switch, you should remove /etc/hostname and /etc/domainname, or at least, rename them for testing and future removal, so that they will not be found
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NiceGuy · Guru Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 451 Location: Canada

Hello,

Thanks for the reply ... been reading a bit .. appears I would need add to /etc/conf.d/net