Debian bug report logs - #1550
hostname -fqdn fails on the latest install disks

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From: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: hostname -fqdn fails on the latest install disks

CD Rasmussen writes ("hostname -fqdn fails on the latest install disks"):
> Problem Description:
> 
> When I type:
> # hostname -f
> hostname: Unknown server 
> 
> Is anyone else getting this or should I assume this is because of
> strange behavior of my name server?

Do you have an /etc/host.conf, and /etc/resolv.conf and an /etc/hosts,
and if so, what is in them ?

What did you answer to the question about your domain name during the
base configuration ?

Bruce Perens writes ("Bug#1547: hostname -fqdn fails on the latest install disks"):
> Can you send us the hosts file? I'd like to see what the root disk put
> there when you configured your system.
> 
> My system didn't do that, by the way.

Have you checked that the base disks work now if you don't supply an
FQDN ?  Not all systems have domain names - some just have names.

Ian.

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