Re: Revisiting the hostname/FQDN issue, adding libnss-myhostname
On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 at 19:58:39 +0200, Timo Röhling wrote:
if you have no
strong feelings about 127.0.0.1 being associated with something else
besides "localhost"
I'd say it's less about whether we as developers have those strong
feelings, and more about whether our upstreams' opinions mean that tools
make assumptions that would be broken by doing that; and also whether
our users are going to get confusing/misleading results from e.g. tools
like netstat or `ss -r` as a result, like seeing a MTA listening on
apollo.example.com:smtp and it not being obvious that what it means is
127.0.0.1:smtp.
smcv
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