On 2009-12-28 23:41:38 +0000, Sam Morris wrote: > Details in <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316099>. I > do wonder, however, why the system hostname has to appear in /etc/hosts > at all? Programs that want to find it out can read /etc/hostname > directly, after all. And wtf is 'localdomain' for, anyway?
Programs may need the FQDN, even without any network connection (for instance, even local mail messages should have a Message-Id). And /etc/hostname doesn't necessarily contain the FQDN. Also, it is required that the FQDN be resolvable (but I wonder whether this is useful in practice). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
