Re: Address 127.0.1.1

[debian-user@howorth.org.uk]

Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> 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

It's a Debian invention, I believe: 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316099