Re: setting the DNS name under NetworkManager

["Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps research bell-labs com>]

From: "Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa gmail com>
Subject: Re: setting the DNS name under NetworkManager
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:12:12 -0600

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> <pfps research bell-labs com> wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I'm trying to find out how to get NetworkManager to set my DNS name.  I
> > have a dynamic DNS server, so all that is needed is to ask for the name
> > I want during DHCP, but it seems that NetworkManager doesn't bother to
> > ask for the system's hostname as a DNS host name.
> >
> > It did seem to me that this would be part of "making networking simple".
> 
> You should be able to do this via system-config-network.
> -- 
> Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin
> ( www.pembo13.com )

That does the trick.  (Edit properties of eth0 and set hostname in the
DHCP section.)  I was hoping, however, that `hostname` would be used as
a last resort.

Peter F. Patel-Schneider