I appreciate Rick thinking to mention /etc/resolv.conf. I tend to forget it, especially since Fedora currently does so much (partial) hand-holding with the network setup widgets. (Reindl is going to complain about my monologues again here, I'm afraid.) On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:02 PM, François Patte <francois.patte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 11/08/2011 00:16, Rick Stevens a écrit : > >> >> Have a look at your /etc/resolv.conf and make sure it's not adding a >> domain to your lookups via a "search home" or somesuch. > > Yes it does: > > domain home > search home > nameserver 192.168.1.1 > > OK. Now I understand (except why cups escape this...) Have you considered specifying an actual domain for your machine? In an ideal world, ISPs would provide a default domain and hostname the user could optionally use, complete with dns resolution, to allow the user to set up a proper FQDN for their hosts (should they so desire). For example, famousisp.com should provide new user newuser7734 with the right to use a name like newuser7734.rosegarden22.famousisp.net, and the setup option to have the IP address he is (possibly dynamically) assigned resolve to that address through the ISP's domain name services. Then newuser7734 could have its domain set to rosegarden22.famousisp.net, and /etc/resolv.conf could have the FQDN in it and various things that fail in different ways when they can't figure out what the machine thinks its name is would quit failing. Without the FQDN, in my opinion, the ISPs are not really providing an essential part of the package. They don't provide it, which gives certain large vendors of proprietary OSses the opening to do stupid things that mess the net up for the rest of us, but also allows gratis dynamic dns services like dyndns.com and no-ip.com a foothold. I finally got frustrated with the clunkiness of working on a host that can't resolve itself and signed up with a dynamic dns provider. dyndns allowed me to choose reiisi as a subdomain of homedns.org, so I use that and it solves a lot of problems for me. (I should be willing to pay something like USD 15 a year to get them to enable resolution of *.reiisi.homedns.org, but I'm too cheap so far.) Anyway, it is possible to get the rights to use an FQDN, and it may be worth it. Joel Rees -- 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
