On 05/03/2011 09:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/04/2011 09:27 AM, Mark Eackloff wrote: >> Tried it but no banana. Same result. The comments in that file say that the default is the host's DNS name, which is what I was using, against popular advice, for my NISDOMAIN. >> > > What you said is a bit unclear...so just want to make sure.... > > You said... "host's DNS name". To me that could mean "fully qualified > domain name". But, that isn't what it needs/wants. It wants only the > "domain" part. > > So, if your host names are aaa.foo.com and bbb.foo.com the entry in the > file is foo.com > Yes, I'm specifying just the foo.com part. I'm running Bind, mostly just as a name-caching server. But I've also created an unpublished domain "eackloff.com" for my internal network. But thanks for asking for the clarification. Mark -- PGP key available -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines