Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> 
> At 6:33 PM -0800 1/17/98, Mark Andres wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I finally found time to finish the beta version of my Ethernet networking
> >How-To. I know we already have a simple one, but I have tried to expand on
> >that one. Mine includes three sections:
> 
> In my (competing ;-) FAQ I advise people to leave the domainname field
> empty in the rc.conf file because AFAIK it is only used for NIS.  Can
> someone comment on what that field is actually used for and when it would
> be needed?
> 
> In any case it probably is *not* the internet domain for the computer
> (though it might be by coincidence).  It replaces the old
> /etc/defaultdomain file.  The internet domain is determined by the
> directives in /etc/resolv.conf.

Whatever it is, it's fed to the 'domain' command to set the domain, I
believe.  I don't know what uses this value, tho.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
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