hostname and domain name server.

[Russell J Fulton;ccc032u]

We are running 3.3.1 on a 4D/240s although the problems with installing the 
dns occurred when we were on 3.2.

When we installed the domain name server (named) we found that we had to 
change our hostname to be a fully qualified internet address (or at least that
is what the SGI documentation said).
i.e ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz. Previously hostname had been set to ccu1.

Recently I installed the elm mail package (Which is GREAT BTW.) I had troubles
with return addresses for local mail. After posting a note to comp.mail.elm
and receiving a prompt response it became clear that the problem was that 
elm expected hostname to return the first part of the name. When I responded
that we had to have it with a full domain name because our name sever would 
not work the reply was that 'Your dns is broken'.

Has anybody else had this problem? Is there anybody out there running 
named with just the single name in the hostname.

Merry Christmas and a big thank you to all of you who have helped me out
during the year. 

Russell.

-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
<rj_fulton at aukuni.ac.nz>