On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:45:56AM +0200, Itay wrote:Newbie's question: is it a problem? Is there a risk?Not really, but some people may prefer that their internal host names and suchlike are not exposed to the outside world. I first noticed it
I can sympathize with the sentiment. 'Knowledge is power!'; right?(I myself hid my local network true name behind 'machine.homenetwork' in this thread...)
when trying to configure my MUA to recognise my own mails to mailing lists and replies to them - I couldn't match on message-it because they were always "....@debian" despite envelope addresses being correct. It took me some time to figure out that /etc/mailname was to blame!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I think I will conclude this thread. Itay