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Message-ID: <20200313100041.374b26da@hermes.lan> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:00:41 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org> To: Chuck <chuck@...elligence.org> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to set domainname with iproute2? (net-tools deprecation) On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:21:52 -0700 Chuck <chuck@...elligence.org> wrote: > I see calls to move the world from net-tools to iproute2 [1] [2] [3]. > > My Linux distro uses the `hostname` executable from net-tools to set the > hostname, which simply passes it through to the `sethostname` system call. > I don't see any references to `sethostname` in the iproute2 sources. I > guess the replacement is systemd's `hostnamectl set-hostname`? > > My distro uses the `domainname` executable (which is a symlink to > `hostname`) from net-tools to set the domain name, which simply passes it > through to the `setdomainname` system call. I don't see any calls > to `sethostname` in either iproute2 or systemd. > > What is the recommended way to set the domain name during system > start-up without net-tools? > > (Asking here because iproute2 is supposed to replace net-tools. If this is > not the right list for this, 1. Apologies, and 2. Where is the right place > for this inquiry?) > > [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/710533/ > [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/710535/ > [3] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/iproute2 Iproute2 is focused around netlink and supporting the kernel networking.
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