Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 01:49:58PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 1:46 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 01:40:38PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:13 AM Paul M Foster > > > > <pa...@quillandmouse.com> wrote: > > > > > 192.168.254.30 yosemite.mars.lan yosemite > > > > > > > 127.0.1.1 is traditionally used for the fully qualified domain > > > > name (fqdn). So I would expect to see 'yosemite.mars.lan', but > > > > not 'yosemite'. > > > > > > I don't know why you would expect that. What purpose would that > > > serve? > > > > Sorry I was not clear. I would expect that because 127.0.1.1 is > > traditionally used for a fully qualified domain name, not a > > hostname. > > What traditions are you referring to? > > Here's Debian's documentation for this whole thing: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_hostname_resolution
It's a Debian invention, I believe: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316099
