Changing your hostname

[charles]

When You change your hostname it will get changed correctly on the server, but there are a couple of side effects. I will note the default behaviour, and then the difference when hosted by Defender Hosting.

1. By default the hostname will get reset back to what it was before when you next reboot. If you hosting provider does this, you will need to email their support to have it changed. Rather annoying. [1]

2. The virtuosso power panel does not show the new name until your hosting provider updates your virtuosso configuration.[2]

charles

[1] Defender Hosting Virtuosso based VPS servers will update the hostname in the VPS configuration when you reboot - so emailing support is not required unless you do not want to reboot - in that case we are happy to update it for you.

[2] Again the power panel will show the correct hostname after you reboot or request we update it for you.

[VSP]

Thanks a million. The one thing I can never remember and will need
to get you to write down - are the territory resolvers. If im right, one
of them is 0.0.0.127 ?? and im not sure of the other 2.
Could I get you to mail these to me and this time I will print it
off for future reference.
Thank's once again for everything.

Regards

[charles]

Thanks a million. The one thing I can never remember and will need
to get you to write down - are the territory resolvers. If im right, one
of them is 0.0.0.127 ?? and im not sure of the other 2.
Could I get you to mail these to me and this time I will print it
off for future reference.
Thank's once again for everything.

Regards

I'm not quite sure I follow you. 127.0.0.1 is the loopback address which is what you want as the first nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf if you are running your own nameserver. Does that answer your question?

charles