Setting up BIND Client

[George Robbins]

In article <13691 at bcsaic.UUCP> phyllis at bcsaic.UUCP (Phyllis Melvin) writes:
> I'm about to set up my Ultrix 3.1 system as a BIND Client.
> According to the documentation, I must set my hostname
> to the fully qualified BIND name (that means changing
> "bcsaic" to "atc.boeing.com").  Changing our name will
> have considerable impact since we have numerous UUCP neighbors
> who know us as 'bcsaic'.  Do I REALLY have to change our
> hostname?

No  (-8

It appears that as of 3.0 uucp knows about domain names and only
uses hostname up to the first dot as the uucp node name...

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