unknown.domain on stand-alone dialup workstation

Rod-a · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Posts: 15

I have (sort of) installed Gentoo on my stand-alone Celeron 800 workstation using Knoppix to provide a dialup connection. I named it "workhorse" and the dnsdomainname "home". I set up /etc resolv.conf as just

127.0.0.1 localhost

I emerged wvdial and used it successfully to set up a connection (PlaNet) to my internet provider at www.hnpl.net, but when I boot up Gentoo it comes up as workhorse on unknown.domain.

How do I get it to use a valid domainname?

Also I ran mirrorselect but when I emerge it doesn't seem to be able to use the new mirrors, but gives error messages about Protocol not supported, and then uses the default gentoo site. How do I get it to return to the original or to planetmirror.com?

Thanks for help

Roderick Aldridge
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ZothOmmog · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:32 pm Post subject:

A: You need to set a hostname for your system.

Rod-a · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Posts: 15

Thanks for your prompt reply. It worked fine. The last emerge also worked fine, (though it was only a very small one). so maybe it fixed the mirror problem too.

Thanks again.

Roderick Aldridge.
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