I have renamed my droplet from the default centos-s-2vcpu-blah to my FQDN, and I see that the PTR record was auto-created accordingly.
I see that my bash prompt is still: [bob@centos-s-2vcpu-blah ~]
So I look in /etc/hosts and I find this (excluding commented lines and those for IPv6, and where I have changed my FQDN to example.com):
127.0.0.1 centos-s-2vcpu-blah centos-s-2vcpu-blah
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost4.localdomain4 localhost4
159.89.111.111 www.example.com example.com
Is it recommended to edit the first line to replace centos-s-2vcpu-blah above to my FQDN? Should I leave alone the 2nd and 3rd lines? If I do edit the first line to my FQDN, will my bash prompt change to show my FQDN?
Or do the 127.0.0.1 entries not really matter? And I can set it to whatever I like my bash prompt to say purely for the purpose of identifying to myself which Putty window is which, if I have a Putty window open to each of my many droplets.
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You’re best off to run the hostname command as root (check hostname -h for full command).
Give the droplet a reboot, if the /etc/hosts still has old entries, then give it an edit.
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