Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Setting up BIND Client
Message-ID: <7537@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 89 23:53:43 GMT
References: <13691@bcsaic.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <13691@bcsaic.UUCP> phyllis@bcsaic.UUCP (Phyllis Melvin) writes:
> I'm about to set up my Ultrix 3.1 system as a BIND Client.
> According to the documentation, I must set my hostname
> to the fully qualified BIND name (that means changing
> "bcsaic" to "atc.boeing.com").  Changing our name will
> have considerable impact since we have numerous UUCP neighbors
> who know us as 'bcsaic'.  Do I REALLY have to change our
> hostname?

No  (-8

It appears that as of 3.0 uucp knows about domain names and only
uses hostname up to the first dot as the uucp node name...

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)