No shit? What kind of SPARC have you got? Mark, IMO, you're asking the right question. localdomain could be renamed just for your own peace of mind and then simple one name communication between boxes, For me, on my network, I call stuff dinkus.local, hitshed.local, etc. A book I have suggests naming the local domain .bogus just to put a finer point on it. Without a local DNS server I have to add all these names to my /etc/hosts, of course. My Qworst router supplies DHCP for one or more of these wierdos, though. Mark Browne wrote: >Bob, >Yes, mandrake on sparc! >See: >http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html >Mandrake has worked better than redhat (for me) and I have stuck with it >since. An example: my "new" SCSI drives came from a RAID array. Redhat and >Suse curled up and died with the "unknown" format on the drives. Mandrake >just asked if I wanted to reformat and trundled on. As far as I am >concerned, most of a given distro revolves around the installer and packaged >applications. The Mandrake installer has consistently dealt with the weird >hardware I have laying around better than other distros, on all my boxen. > >I agree that localhost is special. >Hostname gives me: >Localhost.localdomain > >What brought all this on is that I tire of my prompt saying: >[markb at localhost markb]$ >I guess that I should have asked about the "localdomain" part. >Or is this special too? > >Should I be setting my domain to something if I don't have one? >Somehow, it does not seem that using "Comcast.net" is the right thing. > >Mark Browne > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bob Hartmann [mailto:bhartm at visi.com] >Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:49 PM >To: Mark Browne >Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Stupid newbie question > > >Hey Mark, >localhost is not the domain name. localhost is a builtin thing and >should not be altered, like 127.0.0.1. It's the host, meaning THIS >DEVICE, or THIS NODE. >Try "hostname" and "info hostname" >For adding other nodes as names to Linux, Unix or BSD, it's in >/etc/hosts, just like the hosts file on Windows. (I don't remember where >that is) Check out http://tldp.org/LDP/nag/node62.html. Look at the >links at the top of the page! > > >127.0.0.1 localhost >127.0.0.1 hitshed >10.0.0.44 thatotherthing > >cat /etc/nsswitch.conf >hosts: files dns > >Did I hear you right? Mandrake on Sparc? > > >Mark Browne wrote: > > > >>When I set up my linux boxen I have been leaving the domain name as >>localhost. My ISP is Comcast.net and I don't have my own domain name >>to plug in. >> >>I know that this is sort of retarded, but I have no clue about the >>correct thing to do here. >> >>If it makes any difference, I want to network (samba?) my Mandrake-Sun >>Sparc, Mandrake Intel, OS X Mac, AMD-64 XP, and Intel XP boxen >>together later. >> >>A pointer to a good how-to would be nice. >> >>Mark Browne >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> >> > > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > >