Timeline for How to correctly set hostname and domain name?
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| Mar 3, 2022 at 12:42 | comment | added | Alexander Stohr | the question here is about Ubuntu 16.04 - and its tagged Ubuntu. | |
| May 10, 2021 at 7:03 | comment | added | SYN | Lacking any edit suggestion, here you go: I'm adding mentions to hostnamectl, which is not exhaustive, nor mandatory. Also missing from some Linux distros / not portable | |
| May 10, 2021 at 7:01 | history | edited | SYN | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 290 characters in body |
| May 10, 2021 at 6:55 | history | edited | SYN | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 290 characters in body |
| May 9, 2021 at 8:48 | comment | added | jbarlow | Once again StackExchange's obsolete accepted answers take precedence over current information while questions for newer versions are being deleted as duplicates. | |
| Feb 24, 2020 at 8:17 | comment | added | SYN | Feel free to edit then. The above steps still reflect how I'ld configure my hostname, on debian-based systems, though I didn't deploy Ubuntu in ages... hostnamectl did exist with Ubuntu Trusty and Debian Jessie already, while I initially answered. It's still not a part of Devuan though. Thus, not a standard with debian-like systems, as far as I'm concerned. | |
| Feb 24, 2020 at 2:12 | comment | added | BobHy | -1, this answer is becoming increasingly obsolete. | |
| Jan 7, 2020 at 18:06 | comment | added | Adam Plocher | @inopinatus sudo apt install resolvconf to edit it in 18.04 | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 23:55 | comment | added | B. Shea | Note also that if you use AWS you'll also need to preserve the hostname after reboots - sudo nano /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg update preserve_hostname: true (default is false). | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 23:25 | comment | added | nealmcb | It seems suboptimal to hardcode the IP address in /etc/hosts, in case the server is moved later. Would it be better to put the fqdn on the 127.0.0.1 line, as recommended by @Richard Westby-Nunn? | |
| Dec 2, 2018 at 15:51 | comment | added | chovy | how do i set the fqdn in the prompt? nm : \H | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 5:10 | comment | added | Déjà vu | You could update the answer with hostnamectl | |
| Jun 4, 2018 at 3:42 | comment | added | inopinatus | This doesn't seem to apply to 18.04 LTS - there's no such file /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head and there's no such utility resolvconf. | |
| S Apr 25, 2018 at 17:11 | history | suggested | Benjamin Moore | CC BY-SA 3.0 | search is used to specify search domains, domain is used to specify the host's domain |
| Apr 25, 2018 at 14:57 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 6, 2018 at 23:24 | comment | added | njbair | Don't be fooled by the fact that the "DO NOT EDIT" warning appears in /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head. Everything in the head file is prepended to the resulting /etc/resolv.conf output file, so that's why the warning is in there, so that it shows up in the final result. Threw me for a loop at first. | |
| May 1, 2017 at 1:26 | comment | added | Walf | Both those conf files say DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN on my server (same version). | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 1:04 | comment | added | SYN | Running on EC2, note that you may want to set some DHCP options to your VPC, pushing the proper domain name - or disable DHCP client from your AMIs - to prevent /etc/resolv.conf from being rewritten. | |
| Jan 3, 2017 at 7:52 | comment | added | Thufir | does this work for AWS or other VPS? | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 9:08 | vote | accept | titsou | ||
| Nov 12, 2016 at 23:51 | history | answered | SYN | CC BY-SA 3.0 |