[Info-vax] Changing SMTP server presented hostname in UCX

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-08 19:06:37 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> There was nothing in the core components section to change the actual 
> hostname (but I successfully changed the domain there).

IIRC, the host name is set in three places, the settings are split 
across domain and interfaces in the config tool, and across the DNS 
settings or (less desirably) the local hosts settings.

Also see my various comments about the sad state of the VMS system 
management UI, about how many diffent places and tools are involved, 
and how unnecessarily complex the host name settings are.

Things get worse with the configuration files in my experience, and not 
better — files are certainly simpler to look at, but the use of files 
makes the system manager much more responsible for syntax (which gets 
checked "later") and data coordination; with dealing with the bugs and 
typos and with the settings that inevitably span multiple configuration 
files.  For a corollary, see the logical name morass barely hidden 
underneath the C RTL.


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