OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du jeudi 31 décembre 2009, vers 01:16, Sam
Morris <sam@robots.org.uk> disait :
>>> Adding meaningless configuration to work around programs that are
>>> broken by design does not seem like a good solution.
>>
>> There are a lot of programs requiring some kind of FQDN (for example
>> because they implement a protocol requiring it). How should they get it?
>> I have never seen a more universal that to get node name with uname(),
>> then use gethostbyname(). Please, provide better way.
> The admin should supply it in the program's configuration, since only the
> admin is able to know the correct value.
Sure, the admin would have to configure a whole set of programs instead
of just configuring the canonical name in one unique place of the system
and let each program that needs it to autodiscover it?
This does not preclude the possibility to override what has been
discovered on a case by case basis.
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