[Hostname]

[Gregory D Hough]

Hello all,

There may actually be a simple fix for this but it has elluded me for  
years. How to prevent HOSTNAME lookups to external DNS.

It's customary to give a machine a name, is it not? Localhost is bland  
and unoriginal. So how to deal with a standalone box using rp-pppoe and  
the ISP's primary DNS is my question. I'm weary at seeing "no such  
name" and "Hostname lookup failure." The lookup is useless, unecessary  
and downright stupid in this situation.

Are there any magical entries to /etc/resolv.conf?

Do I need to tweak /etc/nsswitch.conf? It already has files first for  
virtually everything. Am I missing a key file? The only option I  
haven't tried is db. Will that work and if so where can I look for  
help?

It boils down to this; some applications insist upon determining  
hostname --fqdn even when domainname returns <none>

Embarrassed,
farmer6re9
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