Domainname

[JAIKISHAN.B.SAMBHWANI]

Can Some one help me Where to store the Domainname so that it will be permanent
Only domainname and value is not permanent.
My OS is HP-UX 11.00
Resolve.conf all has first line domainname
Second line nameserver
my hosts file allso has full name
for eg a.b.com
when i give hostname or uname -a it just diaplay the host name.

Regards,

Jaikishan

[John Palmer]

hostname is set from file
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf

Edit this file and look for the line
HOSTNAME=""

You can change the current hostname until the next reboot from a root session by typing
hostname .

Regards,

John

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If I understand your post correctly, you are seeing the espected behavior of the hotname and/or uname commands. Try nslookup using your hostname.

...JRF...

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

You can set these parameters also through SAM->Networking and Communications

[JAIKISHAN.B.SAMBHWANI]

Thanx Friends
But my Ques is
when i am seting my domainname with the command it gets sated say
domainname yyy.com
but after reboot this disappeared
how to make this permanent
give me in detail which files i have to update

[Shannon Petry]

The command "domainname" is used in reference to an NIS domainname. If you are running NIS, then you need this, and should set it in "/etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs" along with NIS_CLIENT=, NIS_SLAVE=, NIS_MASTER=, etc. where 0 is off and 1 is on. There are also a few other niceties for NIS such as ypbind options, yppasswd options for servers, etc.
I do not think however you are using NIS, so just avoid using the command "domainname". If you are writing a script or something based on your DNS domain name, parse the "/etc/resolv.conf" file for the domain name.

Best Regards!
Shannon

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If you are referring to NIS, then the domain name is configured in /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs using the variable NIS_DOMAIN.

If you are referring to BIND, then the domain name is configured in /etc/resolv.conf as an entry like "domain myplace.anywhere.com"

Be sure to specify the service order the various names services will query for host information. This is done in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file.

The default order for the nsswitch file is DNS (BIND), NIS, and then FILES (/etc/hosts).
Use the nslookup command to see how your nsswitch file is interpreting queries.

...JRF...