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nathanb

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Registered: 2011-11-28

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How do I set my domain?

My computer isn't showing up in DNS, and I believe the domain name is the culprit. I need to be on domain 'example.com'. My defaultdomain file seems to be set properly:

[root@nathanb-box etc]# cat defaultdomain
example.com

And also:

[root@nathanb-box conf.d]# cat nisdomainname
#
# NIS domain to be set in /etc/rc.d/ypbind
#
NISDOMAINNAME="example.com"

However:

[root@nathanb-box conf.d]# echo $NISDOMAINNAME

[root@nathanb-box conf.d]#

Obviously none of that worked:

[root@nathanb-box conf.d]# domainname
localdomain

[root@nathanb-box conf.d]# domainname example.com
localdomain

How do I set it to example.com? Sorry for the no-doubt noobish question.

Arhat

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Registered: 2010-07-02

Posts: 49

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Re: How do I set my domain?

Not sure if this will solve your problem, but check if you've got
inetutils
installed.
I had a problem with the host name of a server a while back and installing inetutils solved it.

nathanb

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Registered: 2011-11-28

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Re: How do I set my domain?

[nathanb@nathanb-box ~] pacman --sync --search inetutils
core/inetutils 1.8-6 (base) [installed]
    A collection of common network programs

Also, I should mention that resolv.conf has "domain example.com" at the top

Harey

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From: Bavaria, Germany

Registered: 2007-03-24

Posts: 359

Re: How do I set my domain?

Sorry for being late, but today I stubled over this myself. The moves between inetutils and net-tools  seem to have hosed something here. domainname isn't working properly now. Use hostname -d instead. As for nisdomainname you have to edit the file
/etc/conf.d/nisdomainname
to look like this:

NISDOMAINNAME="your.domain"

Did you check your /etc/hosts to reflect your domain and hostname? See here
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … _host_name

HTH
Harvey

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