HOSTNAME from DNS name server

[John L Fjellstad]

Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche at ua.ac.be> writes:

> I would like to always have this hostname used.
> How can I make Ubuntu use the name from the DNS name server
> in the env.var. HOSTNAME  and nou use /etc/hostname at all ?

Used to be that you could just change the order in /etc/host.conf, but
it seems newer C libraries don't use it anymore...

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