On 10/22/2012 10:38 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
Hi guys,
I'd like to suggest that we add nss-myhostname to the base group,
enable it by default in /etc/nsswitch.conf and make 'filesystem'
depend on it.
This means that the admin no longer has to make sure that
/etc/hostname and /etc/hosts are kept in sync, as nss-myhostname will
make sure that the local hostname can always be resolved. In
particular this means that most people can leave /etc/hosts unchanged
so it should simplify the configuration of a basic Arch system.
For more information see: <http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-myhostname/>.
Cheers,
Tom
This is nice while your configured internet connection works :)
At least under my scenario (behind a router), DNS setup to my ISP, If
internet connection goes down, all programs that tries to resolve local
hostname will "sleep" in connect(2) [called by getaddrinfo(3)], until
reaches timeout.
I detected this while, while my internet conection fails, and I try to
launch mc, it takes longer time, so adding back my hostname line to
"hosts" workaround the issue.
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