How to set the domain name?

Focle_Wulf-190 · 09-25-2005, 07:32 AM

Can you help me...

When I installed slackware 10.2 it didn't promp me(or maybe it did, i just didn't notice) to set ta "domain name"

you know:

now is

"root@darkstar"

How do i change "darkstar"

Pls help!

Thnx in advance

MMYoung · 09-25-2005, 07:33 AM

Run netconfig from a root terminal.

HTH,
MMYoung

dunric · 09-25-2005, 09:01 AM

hostname.domainname resides in /etc/HOSTNAME

Lockywolf · 03-28-2020, 10:29 PM

This thread is very old (2005-2020), but still easily googleable.

If a dhcp is used, dhcp will supply the hostname and the domain name, and will override the default settings. In a bad situation, a misbehaving ISP can supply garbage as a hostname or a domainname, believing that only IPs and DNS servers are important to the user.

This can be partially overriden in {/etc/resolv.conf.head, /etc/resolv.conf.tail}