[ydl-gen] setting the hostname in YDL 4.1

[Christopher Murtagh]

On 7/14/06, Nathan Moore <nmoore at physics.umn.edu> wrote:
> I want the machine to have hostname "runner" under the domainname
> "workstations.winona.edu", so that from within the campus network I
> should be able to either,
>         ssh runner
> or
>         ssh runner.workstations.winona.edu,
> both of which presently fail

Hi Nathan,

 There seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding as to how hostnames
work and propagate. You cannot do what you are trying to do by
configuring your machine. If you want this to work, you need to
contact the local LAN admin responsible for DNS. Setting it in your
/etc/hosts file or changing your hostname will only be seen by that
machine. No other machine has access to either of those, so these
changes will not propagate on the net. This is the precise purpose for
DNS.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Chris