Re: a little jessie whinage
On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:22:37 -0600
Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> wrote:
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>On Oct 11, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Your expectations are too high.
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>Don't agree. This is software is intended to run server(s) on the Internet (for me) and other important networks (for enterprise admins). For those applications, it needs to work for at least the trivial software.
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>'hostname -f' isn't rocket science -- it's just a small lookup. I suspect it goes to ifconfig for the IP then in hosts for the FQDN that matches the IP, or, apparently, resolv.conf and hostname. No major problem either way. It could easily be done with a short shell script (maybe it is, I haven't looked).
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>> "Oops" conveys nothing. Which is probably why you didn't expand on it
>> when replying to David Wright.
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>That's exactly what I was trying to say. A next to meaningless error message. "Couldn't find in /etc/hosts, any IP given by ifconfig: <IP(s)>.", might be a little more useful.
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I am still learning. I can't help asking why you would not be using
something like dnsmasq instead of /etc/hosts on a server? Isn't it more
reliable?
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