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Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?



In article <[🔎] 20091229005213.GA28596@xvii.vinc17.org> you wrote:
> So, that would define the FQDN of your machine, i.e. what
> "hostname -f" should return.

We can also thing about putting the fully qualified host name in
/etc/hostname.  A patch to hostname would be to not start resolving, if
/uname contains a dot.

Greetings
Bernd


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