On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 00:07 -0400, ken wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
And can also be in /etc/hosts which can also be used for name resolution. That's what it was used for before bind was written.
True, but I thought we're talking about suse systems of the current day. I suppose if you wanted, you could ignore /etc/HOSTNAME, use /etc/hosts instead, and your system *might* work fine. But I doubt the suse engineers put /etc/HOSTNAME into the system for no reason.
There is no need to ignore it. I simply stated that /etc/hosts can/is still used for name resolution by many people that do not/cannot setup bind/named. If they have a small network their is no need for bind and then /etc/hosts becomes their only means of DNS resolution for PC's their small lan. Enough of this. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge