Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?
On 2009-12-31 16:35:58 +0100, Iustin Pop wrote:
> This is a personal opinion, but having the canonical name rely on
> “hostname --fqdn” is not a favorite of mine: hostname needs the resolver
> to be working and functioning (e.g. it talks to your nameservers if
> /etc/hosts doesn't contain your hostname/ip already).
Well, the practice, the FQDN is often available via /etc/hosts.
> IMHVO, this is a brittle setup and the FQDN should be available directly
> on the host, without external dependencies. Which is why I personally
> think the machine name (the one that the kernel knows) should hold the
> canonical name.
Either that, or having the FQDN in /etc/hosts. I don't see any problem
with that, excepts that iceweasel doesn't cope very well with this:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 vinc17 vinc17 15 2009-12-30 05:35:38 lock -> 127.0.1.1:+5537
I wonder why it doesn't use the FQDN. The IP addresse 127.0.1.1 is
incorrect when the directory is shared with other hosts.
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