Eliminating the .local from node name

Say my domain name is bicycle.com

I setup my mac with a node name of "brakes".

I setup LPD service on a different node callled "chain".

On the mac (10.4.11) I setup a LPR print queue that points to a print
queue served by CHAIN .

However, instead of receiving LPR requests from
myself.TakeThisOut@brakes.bicycle.com
or myself@brakes

it gets it from myself.TakeThisOut@brakes.local


"chain" is setup with proxies, and I can't enter "brakes.local" as an
authorized node to submit print requests since it is not a valid host name.

The ".local" isn't seen by CHAIN when it comes to NFS stuff. But for LPD
it sees the ".local".

Is there a way to eliminate the ".local" from the MAC ? I would rather
see the nodename as "brakes" so it works with DNS resolution with the
default domain name.

(as a temporary fix, I told chain that proxies are not necessary, but I
wouldn't want to leave that like that for a long time)


I have often seen the ".local" nomenclature in various panels/dialogues,
but so far, it never got out of the mac until I tries the LPR/LPD print
queues.

In article , JF Mezei
wrote:

> Say my domain name is bicycle.com
>
> I setup my mac with a node name of "brakes".
>
> I setup LPD service on a different node callled "chain".
>
> On the mac (10.4.11) I setup a LPR print queue that points to a print
> queue served by CHAIN .
>
> However, instead of receiving LPR requests from
> myself.TakeThisOut@brakes.bicycle.com
> or myself@brakes
>
> it gets it from myself.TakeThisOut@brakes.local
>
>
> "chain" is setup with proxies, and I can't enter "brakes.local" as an
> authorized node to submit print requests since it is not a valid host name.
>
> The ".local" isn't seen by CHAIN when it comes to NFS stuff. But for LPD
> it sees the ".local".
>
> Is there a way to eliminate the ".local" from the MAC ? I would rather
> see the nodename as "brakes" so it works with DNS resolution with the
> default domain name.
>
> (as a temporary fix, I told chain that proxies are not necessary, but I
> wouldn't want to leave that like that for a long time)
>
> I have often seen the ".local" nomenclature in various panels/dialogues,
> but so far, it never got out of the mac until I tries the LPR/LPD print
> queues.

In the Sharing preferences pane there's an Edit button that lets you
change the local hostname, but it doesn't look like it lets you remove
the .local.

One alternative is to check to see whether there is a Bonjour/zeroconf
(multicast DNS) implementation that will run on the "chain" machine.
The .local top-level domain is defined for use by mDNS and your "chain"
machine will automatically see that name if it has a mDNS client.
Alternatively, you can simply add brakes.local to the hosts file on
chain.

--
Jerry Kindall, Seattle, WA <http://www.jerrykindall.com/>

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