On Thursday 22 May 2008 14:04:40 Josef Wolf wrote: > I am curious whether it is really a good idea to point > $HOSTNAME.$DOMAINNAME to 127.0.1.1. While this works fine for services > on the local host, it fails if the address is provided to other hosts. > For example, if one installs dnsmasq, the $HOSTNAME.$DOMAINNAME will > resolve to 127.0.1.1 for the whole network, which is obviously not the > right thing to do.
I have thought about this a little bit, but ppp-udeb now does *exactly* the same thing as netcfg. It did not seem a good idea to deviate from that without very good reasons and I could not think of any. > Maybe it would be better to set a hosts entry from ppp-udeb only if > there are no other network interfaces available. When other interfaces > exist (e.g. LAN on eth0 if the host in question is a DSL-router), this > setting should be done by netcfg when it configures this interface. No. You currently use either ppp-udeb or netcfg, never both. If you use ppp-udeb, the PPPoE interface is expected to be your primary (and in most cases only) network interface. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
