Hi,
I created a new droplet today. Named it ‘fred’. If I query the hostname, it returns ‘fred’. If I ask for the FQDN via hostname --fqdn, I get ‘fred’.
My DNS (external provider) is pointing at ‘fred.example.org’.
Reading various articles here, I’ve tried changing the name of the droplet via the control panel (no change after a reboot), using the hostname command (lasts until the next reboot), using the hostnamectl command, which seems to change the hostname and the FQDN to ‘fred.example.org’.
Normally, I’d change the hostname file and the resolv.conf file. But, both files have comments that they should be changed elsewhere in part of the cloud init system. Which seems to be tied into systemd.
This will be a mail server, eventually, and its really important to get the names set up properly.
I keep looking for a tutorial that would address this with the specifics of the Digital Ocean setup, but I’m not finding it.
What am I missing?
Thanks,
johnbo
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Hello,
I believe that there are 3 things that you need to do:
hostnamectl
command:hosts
file:Find the references to the old FQDN and update them to the new one.
cloud.cfg
file. Edit the following file:Find the reference for
preserve_hostname
and change it fromfalse
totrue
.That is pretty much it, you can try to reboot your server and then test the change by running only the
hostnamectl
command.Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby