An odd DNS conundrum?

[lug at the-leveys.us (Don Levey)]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 11:57 -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> Don Levey wrote:
> > 	/u/dlevey> cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> > 	NETWORKING=yes
> > 	HOSTNAME=rialto
> 
> John's right.  The HOSTNAME line should have your FQDN.  You might want to
> delete the DOMAINNAME line too.
> 
> > 	DOMAINNAME=example.com
> > 	NISDOMAIN=nis.example.com
> > 	NETWORKING_IPV6=no
> 
> Matt

That seems to have done it - FQDN in HOSTNAME.  Previously, I had no
DOMAINNAME setting and 'hostname -s' gave me 'localhost' so I guess I
needed that one too.  I wish I know why, after almost a continuous year
of uptime, things started going south now.
 -Don

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