Re: Address 127.0.1.1

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 01:49:58PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 1:46 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 01:40:38PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:13 AM Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> > > > 192.168.254.30  yosemite.mars.lan   yosemite
> >
> > > 127.0.1.1 is traditionally used for the fully qualified domain name
> > > (fqdn). So I would expect to see 'yosemite.mars.lan', but not
> > > 'yosemite'.
> >
> > I don't know why you would expect that.  What purpose would that serve?
> 
> Sorry I was not clear. I would expect that because 127.0.1.1 is
> traditionally used for a fully qualified domain name, not a hostname.

What traditions are you referring to?

Here's Debian's documentation for this whole thing:

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_hostname_resolution