domain is an NIS thing - if you're not running NIS you probably
	want to leave it alone. (It should not cause any problems setting
	it, but some program might see that its set and try to do NIS type
	things when it shouldn't. Unlikely, but you never know)

		David/absolute

   ( If cut and paste be your friend, let a brain be your chaparone... )

On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:56:18 -0800 (PST)
> From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
> To: "Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
> Cc: mark@giganet.net, port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Ethernet Networking How-To
> 
> Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> > 
> > At 6:33 PM -0800 1/17/98, Mark Andres wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I finally found time to finish the beta version of my Ethernet networking
> > >How-To. I know we already have a simple one, but I have tried to expand on
> > >that one. Mine includes three sections:
> > 
> > In my (competing ;-) FAQ I advise people to leave the domainname field
> > empty in the rc.conf file because AFAIK it is only used for NIS.  Can
> > someone comment on what that field is actually used for and when it would
> > be needed?
> > 
> > In any case it probably is *not* the internet domain for the computer
> > (though it might be by coincidence).  It replaces the old
> > /etc/defaultdomain file.  The internet domain is determined by the
> > directives in /etc/resolv.conf.
> 
> Whatever it is, it's fed to the 'domain' command to set the domain, I
> believe.  I don't know what uses this value, tho.
> 
> Later.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
> Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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