Quick question Name servers

Igor Gueths igueths at attbi.com
Mon Sep 2 13:24:12 EDT 2002


Hi William. I apologize for the mis-information. I wasn't aware that the
filepaths were different under Redhat.

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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote:

> Hi Darragh,
>
>      The hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network.  The default line is:
> HOST=localhost.localdomain
> Just change it to what you want.  When you reboot, it'll be right.  But
> this is Linux.  Therefore, you can use the hostname command to set it on
> the fly.  For example, "hostname wb2flw.octothorp.org", without the quotes,
> of course.  The DNS server IP addresses are found in /etc/resolv.conf.  It
> could look something like:
> search octothorp.org
> nameserver 63.224.68.1
> nameserver 206.124.1.134
> You'd probably want to use name-servers that are closer to you, and you'd
> probably want to put a more relevant domain in your search statement.
>
>           HTH.
> --
>           Bill in Denver
>
>
> PS.
>
>      It's almost time for 5-7-Live, one of my favorite programs.  I just
> wish that RTE would give us a bit more than 16Kb, though.
>
>
> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Darragh wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've just re-installed Red Hat and cant remember where the file is for
> > changing the host, dms address and other similar settings.  When I go into
> > links it says no host asined.  I must have deleted one of the howto's and am
> > now stuck.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Darragh
> > Oh by the way, Installation of Redhat and Modem went very well with that
> > exception
> >
> >
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