hostname on a non-NIS machine

[Jangalwa, Raj]

Hi Gurus,

As you can probably figure out, I am new in this DNS world. I am setting up
a Solaris 2.7 box running 8.1.2 bind version to act as a primary DNS server
for these new domain.

I have couple of questions, which may not be useful but will definetly help
me in clearing my doubts.
a) What does the "forwarders" mean in /etc/named.conf file??  I know its for
"forwarder-only" servers, but is it just for the servers who forwards the
resolvers quesries to the machine specified in them?? or am i missing
something.

b) I am not running NIS on this box (duh...) does it make sense to keep my
hostname as "machinename.domainname.com" or should it be just "machinename".
I mean when i type 'hostname', should it say "machinename.domainname.com" or
just "machinename". Will this things effect DNS or its quesries in any
way???

Thanx in Advance and will summarize

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Raj Jangalwa