On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:37:13 -0400, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:31:11 +0100, Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hmmm, `dnsdomainname' returns "(none)" here;  Does it work for you?
> > 
> > Running `domainname' instead seems to do the right thing though...
> > 
> 
> I make no claims to have "correctly" configured this machine on my home
> network, [...]

Same here :)

> [...] but here it is the opposite.  The docs refer to NIS for
> domainname, which I guess is not _that_ common for home networks (or at
> all anymore?).
> 

$ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns

I guess that's a no.

> d


Perhaps others could chime in?


Peace

-- 
Pieter