On Apr 29 11:15:15, t...@tedunangst.com wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:02, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:41:52PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> >> Installed yesterday's current/i386, using dhcpd and pxeboot
> >> from another machine. After the installation, I noticed
> >> that the address that was assigned to me during the install
> >> via DHCP was written into /etc/hosts. Is that intended?
> >> Should an arbitrary dhcp-assigned address be written into
> >> /etc/hosts to stay there? Should that be mentioned in afterboot?
>
> > Your points are valid. I no longer recall the discussions that took
> > place at the time, and am open to any new discussion.
>
> As I recall, Bad Things (tm) happen when the machine's hostname does
> not resolve, and that's why there is always an entry in hosts.
>
> If I wanted to open a giant rabbit hole, I might suggest dhclient
> should update hosts as it runs... But it's important that *something*
> be in /etc/hosts that matches what's in /etc/myname.
>
> We changed it from adding 127.0.0.1 entries for the hostname because
> Other Bad Things (tm) happened when forward and reverse lookups for
> localhost and/or the hostname didn't coordinate.
On a fresh current/i386 I see
127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
192.168.167.100 gw.my.domain gw
where is the dhcp address assigned to me during install,
now completely meaningless. I just deleted it.
Should this be mentioned afterboot,
possibly under "Check hostname" or
"Verify network interface configuration"?
Jan
