http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=929471 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=929471#c20 --- Comment #20 from Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.com> --- The static hostname should be without any domain name. Simply because it is a local hostname which is normally not related to any network device. Also in Europe where very long domain names are common, it could be that if the domain name become part of the static hostname, it might be overflow the array used for the hostname (currently the limit is 64 characters, on older systems it might be 32 characters). Compare with man:proc(5) /proc/sys/kernel/domainname and /proc/sys/kernel/hostname can be used to set the NIS/YP domainname and the hostname of your box in exactly the same way as the commands domainname(1) and hostname(1), that is: # echo 'darkstar' > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname # echo 'mydomain' > /proc/sys/kernel/domainname has the same effect as # hostname 'darkstar' # domainname 'mydomain' Note, however, that the classic darkstar.frop.org has the hostname "darkstar" and DNS (Internet Domain Name Server) domainname "frop.org", not to be confused with the NIS (Network Information Service) or YP (Yellow Pages) domainname. These two domain names are in general different. For a detailed discussion see the hostname(1) man page. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.