On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:57:41 +0200, Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 02:55:30PM -0400, micah anderson wrote: > > >> Does the part about the FQDN doesn't explain the claim? > > > > No, it doesn't explain at all, it just makes the claim with no > > substantiation. > > No, it explains the difference between the hostname (which is what is stored > in > /etc/hostname) and the FQDN.
We must be talking about different things, because all I see is:
FILES
/etc/hosts
/etc/hostname This file should only contain the hostname and not the
full FQDN.
> > I'd like to see the justification for why it should only contain the
> > hostname, and not the full FQDN. Some things think it should contain the
> > FQDN. If they are wrong, there needs to be a clear justification for
> > why.
>
> You might want to give a justification for your questioning of this claim.
I think the lack of justification of the claim is the issue here, not
the lack of justification of the lack of justification.
micah
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