Re: to use the FQDN in /etc/hostname or not?
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Thomas Hood wrote:
> The recommended way is #2. The canonical host name for the machine is
> determined by /etc/hosts.
>
> # Primary IP address # Canonical host name # aliases
> 130.28.1.99 www.example.com www
it should really be done in the dns files itself so that
one doesn't need to (re)define it n-times for n-machines
and have mis-matches when people change etc/hosts and dont
tell nobody and people wonder why innocent-joe's pc work and
whacky-bozo's pc fails
use of /etc/hosts should be discouraged unless you
are the only one to change it and have just a few boxes
to mess round with and do not want to mess around with
the whacky dns file formats
c ya
alvin
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