On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <[email protected]> wrote: >> What does hostname | cut -d . -f 1 say? > > It says ssdstor000i as the machine defaults to it's public IP. > > Whouldn't it make sense to go through all aliases set in /etc/hosts which > point to a local IP?
Actually, the short hostname of the machine is completely unrelated to what IP addresses etc it has. The hostname is a configurable string. We treat it as such -- it's just expected to be a unique identifier for the host. There's no nice, reliable way to look up aliases that point to a local IP. /etc/hosts is meant to be accessed through a library that also uses DNS, and you really don't want to tie your daemon startup to DNS availability and functioning. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
