On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:15:00PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 02, R�mi Denis-Courmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Eh? I don't think so. gethostname() will often return a result that does > Who cares? Hosts are supposed to know their own hostname.
Why? To more adaquately defeat the user's privacy expectations? I think if someone is using IPv6 privacy extensions, they'd be quite surprised if they learned their machine were sending a unique identifier --- the hostname --- everywhere.
