Previously Thomas Hood wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 21:07 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > I'm not quite sure what you mean here. If you mean the system should > > always use a fixed hostname > > I don't mean that. I mean that when you do gethostbyname() on the > system hostname, the h_name you get back is either the system hostname > or the system hostname with a domain name suffix.
Ok, that makes sense. > A minority of Debian systems are standalone. Of those, some might be > networked in the future and so are no different from what I called > "mobile systems" in my first message. In any case, the scheme I > proposed works as well for Gilligan's Island systems as it does for > others. It does not work for systems that use a custom resolver though. And I think we do ship with a few (if memory serves me correctly OOo and mozilla both have one). > > The concept of 'primary NIC' does not exist. > > This concept goes back a long way and can be found in old UNIX and Sun > manuals. If a system has one or more permanently installed NICs with > statically assigned IP addresses then one of these is regarded as the > primary one and its address is the one associated with the system > hostname in /etc/hosts. We live in a different century now. I don't think the concept of a single primary NIC is very useful. > > 'defaults' is a highly confusing name > > It's the best name that has been suggested so far. fake_hostname would be more intuitive I think. > Yes, we'll have to add a section to the release notes. Release notes should include it, but it should also be in all user manuals, FAQs and other documents. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
