host's fqdn not resolving

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Tue Aug 23 18:13:17 UTC 2022


On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 09:57:15AM -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> On 8/22/22 02:21, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 11:37:50PM -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> > > So it seems to me the straightest way forward would be to configure an
> > > ephemeral machine to treat it's own hostname "xxx" and "xxx.home" the
> > > same, without any reliance on the network dns server.  (Well, I guess
> > > it would not be precisely the same as "xxx" would return 127.0.1.1 and
> > > "xxx.home" would return the dhcp ip address; or maybe both one or the
> > > other, not sure; but a dns lookup not finding "xxx.home" breaks things.)
> > > 
> > That's the pain of letting Avahi etc. loose on your system and using
> > the names it provides! :-)
> 
> It wasn't me! :-)  Ubuntu is the one who installed and activated it
> during the install (or maybe, it occurs to me now, as a result of
> some other (Ubuntu) package that I installed.)
> 
I know it wasn't you, the default setup is what I was moaning about.

-- 
Chris Green




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