dhclient and dnsdomainname (hostname -d)

Alan d1 at ms.unimelb.edu.au
Mon Nov 28 23:14:49 UTC 2005


I think it gets the domainname from /etc/sysconfig/network.


David Wilk wrote:
> Howdy all,
> 
> I help administer a RHEL3 server and dhclient-script is a bit flakey and 
> will not always set dnsdomainname.  I'm talking about the result from 
> hostname -d.  I've tried setting this in /etc/resolv.conf as 'domain' 
> and 'search' and I've tried using a FQDN in 'hostname' but nothing seems 
> to work.  I've grepped the filesystem for this setting and can find it 
> nowhere.  It appears to be a magic value somewhere with no way to 
> influence it directly.
> 
> any thoughts?
> 
> I would very much appreciate any thoughts, ideas, etc.
> 
> thanks,
> Dave
> 
> 
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