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jayunit100
Asked: 2014-07-01 03:59:40 +0800 CST

Fedora 20 : Removing domain info (converted to hyphens)

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Im noticing that in Fedora 20, if I modify the HOSTNAME=.... parameter to include a typical hostname:

HOSTNAME=machine1.local

It actually replaces the "." with a "-" character , and machine1.local is not pingable.

Why is fedora interchanging the "." character with a dash, given that the "." in a hostname has a very specific meaning, and is usually deliberate?

And my more important question: Whats the right way to set a fully qualified hostname on a local computer (I dont have DNS set up).

hostname

1 Answers

  1. In RHEL 7 and recent Fedora, the system hostname is no longer set in the /etc/sysconfig/network file. It is now set in the /etc/hostname file, which should contain only the fully qualified domain name.

    # cat /etc/hostname
saurok.example.com
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