On Friday 15 September 2017 19:17:30 x9p wrote:
> > Thanks, now I see it.
> >
> > Your /etc/hosts says:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > 127.0.1.1 localhost
> >
> > ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> >
> > Note the absence of localhost.localdomain.
> >
> >
> > Your hostname is "localhost.localdomain", as strace helpfully shows
> > us:
> >
> > uname({sysname="Linux", nodename="localhost.localdomain", ...})
>
> strangely i do not remember calling it localhost with domain
> localdomain, just localhost.
>
> > I won't say that specifying fqdn as nodename is wrong per se, but in
> > your case you don't have a record for your hostname in /etc/hosts.
> >
> > This *could* be the case that's nss-myhostname is designed for but
> > ⦠it's the last in your nsswitch.conf so it cannot come into play.
> >
> > Therefore libc resolver you're using does exactly the same way it's
> > supposed to - search for localhost.localdomain in /etc/hosts first,
> > query DNS next.
> >
> >
> > Quick and dirty way to fix this is to add a record for
> > 'localhost.localdomain' in your /etc/hosts.
>
> Will do it, thanks
>
> > Correct, but painful way (I won't even try to predict what you could
> > break in your setup) to fix this is to ensure that your hostname is
> > 'localhost' verbatim.
>
> I still think correct way is sudo not try to access network functions
> in a setup where it does not need to - waste of time, code, and opens
> it to more bugs.
>
> Thanks for the analysis Reco.
>
> x9p
Since the /etc/hosts file can also contain aliases, the ideaL way would
seem to be to make use of that. Example:
192.168.x.z localhost.localdomain localhost
where x.z are the triplets (without the zero leading fill of course)
corresponding to the class d of your local network.
Then you shouldn't have any dns problems if your resolv.conf is correct.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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