Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?
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- Subject: Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?
- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:21:00 +0100
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[Iustin Pop]
> 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.
I agree, and I always make sure /etc/hostname is the FQDN or something
close to it on machines I run.
We do the same at the university where I work, on all Unix versions
that are capable of storing the long names (had some problems with
older HP-UX, not sure we have any Unix versions left which refused
hostnames >8 characters).
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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