Hostname funniness

[Lorenzo E. Danielsson]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 17:08 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Thomas Hood 
> 
> | > 127.0.0.1 shonap.err.no shonap localhost.localdomain localhost
> | 
> | This is not perfect either because it makes 'shonap.err.no' the
> | canonical hostname of "localhost".  This:
> 
> Why is that a problem?
> 
> | 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> | 127.0.1.1 shonap.err.no shonap
> | 
> | is better in that respect.
> 
> I think that looks hideous.

I'd have to agree. As I said, my FreeBSD box does the right thing, IMO.

I would expect 'hostname -s' to give me the host name part of
'hostname'. As somebody explained the hostname man page explains why I
don't get what I expect from 'hostname -s'. But I still don't agree with
it. 

I'm also left with another question: since Gentoo is also a GNU
operating system, why does it do the right thing? I don't have regular
access to the box these days, so I can't look into it myself. But I know
for a fact that it does do the right thing.

++Lorenzo;

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> Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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