On 08/24/2010 03:02 PM, Meyithi wrote:

On 24 August 2010 19:52, Carlos Mennens wrote:

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I have read on Google searches and on all over so many different ways to properly set a FQDN on Arch Linux and am more confused than I was before I started looking this up. I don't ever get prompted during the Arch installer to enter a 'hostname' but rather do so in /etc/rc.conf which appears to make no difference because it's superseded by /etc/hosts. Can someone tell me if I want my Arch machine called "bishop.mydomain.tld", how does one properly and officially achieve this task in Arch?

Thanks!

You'll get many different answers, but this is how I do it. You'll get different results for hostname and hostname -f this way. Take into consideration that on a machine that uses DHCP you'll not be able to do this reliably due to the changing IP unless you can assign it on the router/gateway.

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.64 myname.mydomain.com myname

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.2 myname.mydomain.com myname Is what I do