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



OoO En  cette nuit nuageuse du  mardi 29 décembre 2009,  vers 00:41, Sam
Morris <sam@robots.org.uk> disait :

> Details in <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316099>. I 
> do wonder, however, why the system hostname has to appear in /etc/hosts 
> at all? Programs that want to find it out can read /etc/hostname 
> directly, after all. And wtf is 'localdomain' for, anyway?

A common way to get hostname is to request node name through uname, then
asks  for a resolution  of this  name. If  the name  does not  appear in
/etc/hosts, this will lead to a DNS resolution and without network, this
can take a long time.
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