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churcher
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Location: Dunedin, New Zealand
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 Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 12:04 am Post subject: Dial up to ISP: dnsdomain? |
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Loving this Gentoo install. I've done the rounds over the last few years... RH, Debian, Slackware, LFS... Gentoo is 'it' for me. I plan to settle down and grow, ahem, 'emerge' roots.
One thing still puzzles me. The box I put Gentoo on is not connected to a LAN (though the next two or three surely will be, this was a trial). With a slow modem dialup connection, what goes in /etc/dnsdomain? Is it best to include the domain of my ISP? Or simply leave it out?
I note that, while email and all other networking works fine (via wvdial/pppd), GNOME complains that it can't find my network address when I log in. |
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churcher
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Ah. Adding the box's name to /etc/hosts fixed the GNOME issue. That is, with this box's hostname being 'julius', changed this: | Code: | | 127.0.0.1 localhost |
to this: | Code: | | 127.0.0.1 localhost julius |
Simple fix, should have thought of it sooner.
The question about dnsdomain stands: if it's not affecting me, do I need it at all? |
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