updating /etc/hosts on ifup...
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OK..
What originally drew me here was this bug:
http://www.blackdown.org/cgi-bin/jdk/done?id=19;user=guest
It seems to me that in
/etc/network/if-up.d we should have a script which changes the hostname in
/etc/hosts to the new IP address of that interface.
So when you do an 'ifup eth0' you would then change the 'hostname' entry in
/etc/hosts to the newly acquired IP.
In some situations this is highly desirable. For example if you have a laptop
that is always on DHCP (like I do) you want your /etc/hosts always synched up.
Now on big server boxen you don't really want this. Ideally this would be an
optional debian package.
Any thoughts?
This was originally noticed from the JXTA project...
http://vop2p.jxta.org/project/www/docs/DomainFAQ.html#Linux-Localhost
I am sure it would be nice to have a Debian solution to make RedHat look bad :)
Kevin
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