Re: proper way to change ip and hostname

From: Thomas Hood (jdthood_at_aglu.demon.nl)
Date: 07/27/05

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    Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:20:16 +0200
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    Brian Kimball wrote:
    > Others have already led you in the right direction. To summarize:
    >
    > 1) change IP address: edit interface information in
    > /etc/network/interfaces
    > 2) change hostname: edit /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts
    > 3) update nameserver information in /etc/resolv.conf or
    > /etc/network/interfaces if you use the resolvconf package.

    Good

    > But that only handles the bare minimum. You will also need to
    > reconfigure any software that has your old hostname, IP address,
    > netmask, network address, etc., hardcoded in its config files.
    > In this case grepping everything in /etc is the only sure-fire
    > way to remember what needs to be changed and what doesn't.

    But in many cases the software should have been configured to
    use "localhost" anyway, and this name -- the canonical hostname
    corresponding to IP address 127.0.0.1, never changes.

    Matthew Lenz wrote:
    > The only other difference I could see is that etherconf puts
    > the FQDN in /etc/hostname rather than just the host name.

    Arrgh. I'll file a bug report about that. It is possible to
    have a FQDN as one's system hostname, but this is not Debian
    tradition and Debian configuration tools should be consistent. 

    -- 
Thomas Hood
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