I'm now running CentOS-7.0-1406 and
looks like i can't setup hostname properly. As far as i know, you need to setup hostname
using hostnamectl set-hostname command and write FQDN in
/etc/hosts.
I have a centos machine and i want to set it's hostname to
"server" and FQDN to "server.mydomain.com". I run hostnamectl command and edit
/etc/hosts
file:
[root@server ~]#
hostnamectl set-hostname server
[root@server ~]# cat
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
localhost4.localdomain4
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
localhost6.localdomain6
{inet_IP_here} server.mydomain.com server
At first everything
looks fine, console displays hostname when i run hostname
and it displays FQDN when i run hostname
-f:
[root@server
~]# hostname
server
[root@server ~]# hostname
-f
server.mydomain.com
BUT
after i reboot machine and run the same commands again, it starts to display FQDN as
hostname:
[root@server ~]#
hostname
server.mydomain.com
I
must say that it's a VPS server and i have no such problem when i
do it on a local virtual machine. Also there is no any settings in VPS control panel
which look like hostname. What reason might cause such problems?
Answer
The Red Hat documentation explicitly instructs you to href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Networking_Guide/ch-Configure_Host_Names.html"
rel="nofollow noreferrer">use the fully qualified domain name as the machine's static
hostname. Trying to name a server with a single unqualified name causes a
variety of problems with various services, most notably
email.
A host name
can be a free-form string up to 64 characters in length. However, Red Hat recommends
that both static and transient names match the fully-qualified domain
name (FQDN) used for the machine in DNS, such as
host.example.com
.
You
should be doing:
hostnamectl
set-hostname
server.example.com
You
can also manually edit /etc/hostname
for the same effect;
again, it should contain the
FQDN.
# cat
/etc/hostname
server.example.com
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