[Please CC me on replies, as I am not subscribed] Hi debian-installer team, at the moment, the Debian installer creates a /etc/hosts file containing the local host name¹, so that this name is resolvable even if not registered in the DNS. Unfortunately, this is a possible cause of problems when the user wants to change the hostname – he has to change it in /etc/hosts two. Lennart Poetting’s libnss-myhostname² works around this issue. Instead of hard-coding the hostname in /etc/hosts, this nss module resolves the current local host to 127.0.1.1. It also works with ipv6. Would this be something that could be used by default in Debian, maybe for squeeze+1? Pros: * Renaming a host does not affect /etc/hosts. * /etc/hosts is the same on all installation and can be made a regular static conffile shipped by some base package, instead of being created by netcfg during installation. Cons: * Another nss module that has to be loaded. * More code involed in a very common procedure that might contain bugs (but these will eventually all be fixed, I assume). What do you think? Greetings, Joachim ¹ file /packages/netcfg/netcfg-common.c line 729 func netcfg_write_common() ² http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libnss-myhostname -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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