Re: hostname?

Jan Danielsson wrote:
>    I always thought that the first part of a FQDN is
the hostname. i.e.
> 
>    c98hr92hr8.d934ryhn982.zorg.com
> 
>    ...means that the FQDN is
c98hr92hr8.d934ryhn982.zorg.com and the
> hostname is merely "c98hr92hr8".
> 
>    Is this correct? I have seen people claim that
"hostname" should be
> set to (in this case) c98hr92hr8.d934ryhn982.zorg.com.

You're right and they're right.  

The hostname is the first element in the FQDN; in a.b.c.d,
"a" is the host
and "b.c.d" is the domain.  

But you have to tell the machine, somehow, what its hostname
is and what
domain it's in.  In NetBSD, that's done in one fell swoop by
setting the
hostname to the FQDN.  

HTH.  

--jkl