Stupid network hostname problem

I've created this really annoying network problem by having an incorrect
hostname, domainname or something. I don't know what I did wrong to create
the problem. Anytime I use try to access an invalid domain name, my system
appends it to my own domain name.

Example:
> ping www.cupsnotbook.com becomes www.cupsnotbook.myprivatedomain.com

This is mildly annoying, however, if my host's DNS server is inaccessible
and I am trying to send an email to a valid domain, then it too gets messed
up.
i.e. (E-Mail Removed) becomes (E-Mail Removed)

I am trying to have a hostname of "fedora" on my domain of
"myprivatedomain.com" (not my real domain)
I am not sure where my problem is, or how to fix it. Here is the output of
some commands -- can someone tell me what looks wrong?
> hostname fedora
> domainname (none)
> dnsdomainname myprivatedomain.com
> cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORK=yes
HOSTNAME=fedora.myprivatedomain.com

Thanks, Jarson (jarson from sygration - that's a dot com company if want to
mail me)

Jarson wrote:

> I've created this really annoying network problem by having an incorrect
> hostname, domainname or something. I don't know what I did wrong to
> create
> the problem. Anytime I use try to access an invalid domain name, my
> system appends it to my own domain name.
>
> Example:
> > ping www.cupsnotbook.com becomes www.cupsnotbook.myprivatedomain.com
>
> This is mildly annoying, however, if my host's DNS server is inaccessible
> and I am trying to send an email to a valid domain, then it too gets
> messed up.
> i.e. (E-Mail Removed) becomes (E-Mail Removed)
>
> I am trying to have a hostname of "fedora" on my domain of
> "myprivatedomain.com" (not my real domain)
> I am not sure where my problem is, or how to fix it. Here is the output
> of some commands -- can someone tell me what looks wrong?
>> hostname fedora
>> domainname (none)
>> dnsdomainname myprivatedomain.com
>> cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORK=yes
> HOSTNAME=fedora.myprivatedomain.com
>
> Thanks, Jarson (jarson from sygration - that's a dot com company if want
> to mail me)
Hi,

you might want to delete/comment the domainname in /etc/resolf.conf

Alex

resolv.conf did have my domain name in it

>search myprivatedomain.com
>nameserver 206.47.244.109
>nameserver 206.47.244.137

However, that directive means it will append my domain to any node that does
not have a domain. I tried removing it any, but I still have the same
problem.

Jarson

"Alexander Harsch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:d4tmdt$26l3$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Jarson wrote:
>
>> I've created this really annoying network problem by having an incorrect
>> hostname, domainname or something. I don't know what I did wrong to
>> create
>> the problem. Anytime I use try to access an invalid domain name, my
>> system appends it to my own domain name.
>>
>> Example:
>> > ping www.cupsnotbook.com becomes www.cupsnotbook.myprivatedomain.com
>>
>> This is mildly annoying, however, if my host's DNS server is inaccessible
>> and I am trying to send an email to a valid domain, then it too gets
>> messed up.
>> i.e. (E-Mail Removed) becomes (E-Mail Removed)
>>
>> I am trying to have a hostname of "fedora" on my domain of
>> "myprivatedomain.com" (not my real domain)
>> I am not sure where my problem is, or how to fix it. Here is the output
>> of some commands -- can someone tell me what looks wrong?
>>> hostname fedora
>>> domainname (none)
>>> dnsdomainname myprivatedomain.com
>>> cat /etc/sysconfig/network
>> NETWORK=yes
>> HOSTNAME=fedora.myprivatedomain.com
>>
>> Thanks, Jarson (jarson from sygration - that's a dot com company if want
>> to mail me)
> Hi,
>
> you might want to delete/comment the domainname in /etc/resolf.conf
>
> Alex

Jarson wrote:
> resolv.conf did have my domain name in it
>
> >search myprivatedomain.com
> >nameserver 206.47.244.109
> >nameserver 206.47.244.137
>
> However, that directive means it will append my domain to any node that does
> not have a domain. I tried removing it any, but I still have the same
> problem.

You need to replace that with its opposite:
domain myprivatedomain.com

That lets the resolver know that it should *not* append domains to any
host that appears to be outside the domain (i.e. have less than a FQDN)

Think it through ;-)

>>>I am trying to have a hostname of "fedora" on my domain of
>>>"myprivatedomain.com" (not my real domain)
>>>I am not sure where my problem is, or how to fix it. Here is the output
>>>of some commands -- can someone tell me what looks wrong?
>>>
>>>>hostname fedora
>>>>domainname (none)
>>>>dnsdomainname myprivatedomain.com
>>>>cat /etc/sysconfig/network
>>>
>>> NETWORK=yes
>>> HOSTNAME=fedora.myprivatedomain.com

The hostname is wrong here - either FC is messing up or you did.


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J

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