Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!gould.doc!dme From: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Name resolution service for HP 9000/HP-UX 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 90 05:49:50 GMT References: <3532@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1670002@hpcc01.HP.COM> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Imperial College Mafia Lines: 17 In-reply-to: cricket@hpcc01.HP.COM's message of 3 Oct 90 17:33:18 GMT In article <1670002@hpcc01.HP.COM> cricket@hpcc01.HP.COM (Cricket Liu) writes: cricket> If you want your search list to be set correctly and you don't set your cricket> hostname to a full domain name, you should also use the "domain" directive cricket> (also man 4 resolver) in /etc/resolv.conf: cricket> domain gsfc.nasa.gov is it possible to have clusters, _and_ have all of the hosts with fully qualified domain names ? i've spent about 10 minutes thinking about doing this, and decided that it wouldn't work. cricket> cricket dave. -- Dave Edmondson, Systems Support. Opinions are all my own. Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 1BZ. phone: 071-589-5111 x5085 fax: 071-581-8024 email: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk, ..!ukc!icdoc!dme, dme@athena.mit.edu ``Be selective, be objective, be an asset to the collective'' -- Jazzy B