I have a semi-working Debian 4 VPS with Gandi.net. I've tried every way I know how to set the domainname and make it stick, but whenever I reboot the server, I'm back to hostname returning the hostname (fs01), and hostname -d returning nothing. Where can I set the domainname so that it sticks between reboots? I've never had this problem on any other VPS accounts I've had.
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- By:
Gordon Pettey - Date: on 2008 May. 14 01:59
- Subject: Hostname, but no domainname
- By: Jonathan (Gandi)
- Date: on 2008 May. 15 17:26
- Subject: Re: Hostname, but no domainname
Hi Gordon,
Where can I set the domainname so that it sticks between reboots?
It's not possible: the DHCP protocol rewite your hostname at every reboot...
\o/ Jonathan Gandi.Net
- By:
Edd Dumbill
- Date: on 2008 Jun. 13 14:35
- Subject: Re: Hostname, but no domainname
On May, 15 2008 17:26 CEST, Jonathan (Gandi) wrote:
Hi Gordon,Where can I set the domainname so that it sticks between reboots?It's not possible: the DHCP protocol rewite your hostname at every reboot...
I already opened a support request on this, but it would be good if you could support setting the domain name. From what I can see, it appears to be controlled by the Gandi management service which rewrites /etc/hosts on a reboot. If you moved the management of the domain name to the dhcpd then we could use 'supersede domain-name' in dhclient.conf to configure it. Meanwhile, the solution is to write a startup script which rewrites /etc/hosts at some point after the Gandi management script has altered it.