From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 Description of problem: When I boot up my computer into linux, the hostname I get does not contain the domain name. For example, the hostname on my computer should generally be r070538.res.lehigh.edu. However, my computer only has it listed as r075038. It does not have the domain name following it, and therefore I cannot resolve my ip. I have to manually use sysctl -w kernel.hostname=r075038.res.lehigh.edu for it to work. Is there any way so it automatically will look it up? By the way, this used to work but for some reason I am just having this problem now. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot machine into linux 2. 3. Actual Results: It brings up eth0 during bootup, but at lpd it gives me the error that it can't resolve r075038 (since it doesn't contain the domain .res.lehigh.edu) Expected Results: A full hostname Additional info:
Having the hostname == FQDN is not a requirement. You probably need to fix your hostname resolution setup so that 'hostname -f' works properly. If DNS is borked, you might need to fix up the /etc/hosts line.... (This also has nothing to do with the dhcp server package)
So what would I have to do to make sure that it recognizes my entire hostname?
Sorry, I gave the basics, but if you need more assistance than that, you'll need to talk to the fine folks in support, or avail yourself of one of the mailing lists for Red Hat Linux users (see www.redhat.com/support and www.redhat.com/mailing-lists)