phyllis@bcsaic.UUCP (Phyllis Melvin) (08/03/89)
I'm about to set up my Ultrix 3.1 system as a BIND Client. According to the documentation, I must set my hostname to the fully qualified BIND name (that means changing "bcsaic" to "atc.boeing.com"). Changing our name will have considerable impact since we have numerous UUCP neighbors who know us as 'bcsaic'. Do I REALLY have to change our hostname? Is there some way to work around this? Or, alternatively, is there a way to use an alias with UUCP (so our UUCP neighbors still think our name is "bcsaic")? -- Phyllis Melvin UUCP: uw-beaver!bcsaic!phyllis ARPA: phyllis@atc.boeing.com
grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (08/04/89)
In article <13691@bcsaic.UUCP> phyllis@bcsaic.UUCP (Phyllis Melvin) writes: > I'm about to set up my Ultrix 3.1 system as a BIND Client. > According to the documentation, I must set my hostname > to the fully qualified BIND name (that means changing > "bcsaic" to "atc.boeing.com"). Changing our name will > have considerable impact since we have numerous UUCP neighbors > who know us as 'bcsaic'. Do I REALLY have to change our > hostname? No (-8 It appears that as of 3.0 uucp knows about domain names and only uses hostname up to the first dot as the uucp node name... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)