Ubuntu
gnome-system-tools package

Network Manager adds domain name where it shouldn't

Bug #197912 reported by Andrzej Książkiewicz
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gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 7.10
Network Manager

Do the following in the network manager:
1) Set the computer name -for ex. comp
2) Set the domain name - for ex. net
3) Go to the Computers tab and add new computer for ex. IP 192.168.1.2 and alias comp,
4) Close the Network Manager
5) Open the Network Manager and check the computers tab, you will see tha the IP address 192.168.1.2 has alias comp.net while it should have been only comp

The result is that I can't connect to the internet or the computer runs very slow. I can't connect to the internet on my laptop using WiFi and on my desktop everything is very slow.
To repair this i have to edit manually /etc/host and remove domain name .net from the alias. After that everything runs smoothly.

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Andrzej Książkiewicz (ksiaze) wrote :

Should be /etc/hosts and not /etc/host

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Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug. I think this contains enough information in order to let the GNOME developers decide what action needs to be taken.

Changed in network-manager:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense) wrote :

I was a bit too fast with confirming the bug. It seems to not be a bug in network-manage but gnome-system-tools.
The thing is that when you set a hostname all computer names get a .hostname behind them in order to let it work, or at least adapt things to your address. Since your computer is in a domain it needs more information to reach next to it's computername.

Something that is a bug is that when you remove the hostname again you have to remove .hostname manually.

Changed in network-manager:
importance: Medium → Undecided
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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