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This is not so much as a problem, just a curiosity.
I've often seen the error that my hostname is not a fully qualified domain name. During the installation of Mandrake 10 it even gives me an example of a good hostname followed by ".com".
What if I'm not a ".com"? I don't want my hostname to be something.com! Is there a proper way to have a name like "foo" that isn't followed by a top-level-domain?
If it's just for home use and you don't try to use the hostname for a server, you don't need a fully qualified domain. Any domain that ends on .com, .net, .org etc or any country code would do - if you have a stratic Ip you probably have such a hostname assigned by your ISP. But if you don't have - not a big problem.
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