Bug#613167: /etc/hosts on Diskless Clients

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>]

clone 613167 -1
reassign -1 ltsp-client-core
found -1 5.1.10-2
thanks

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:03:47PM +0100, Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:59:44PM +0100, Wolfgang Schweer wrote:
> > On Mi, 16 Feb 2011, Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
> > 
> > > to get Diskless Clients work with Kerberos we first have to find a way
> > > to modify the entires in /etc/hosts.
> > > 
> > > Currently, there is an entry: 
> > > 
> > > 10.0.2.2   server  
> >   
> > This entry is supposed to be written by /usr/share/ltsp/screen.d/ldm 
> > (inside the chroot - by default /opt/ltsp/i386)

that's a different, but nearly identical, problem...
 
> Thanks for the pointer. With its help I found the following:
> 
> The 'server' looks like being hardcoded in the function configure_resolver()
> defined in:  
> 
>      /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/share/ltsp/ltsp-init-common
> 
> Any ideas how to modify that entry easily?

there is no good way to do this, unfortunately. gah. sorry about that. for
years, LTSP development assumed DNS would not available, and this is clearly a
poor assumption.

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