Benjamin Cama wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le samedi 17 octobre 2009 à 21:44 -0400, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
>> I thought that all the names listed in /etc/hosts are FQDN already
>> (adding domains is done to hostnames that we lookup, not to the
>> hostnames in the hostnames-table), so the additional . is at
>> best redundant.
> 
> Looked at a Debian man page of /etc/hosts (I couldn't find one for
> busybox) and you are actually almost right. It says :
> 
>   [Host names] must begin with an alphabetic character and end with an
>   alphanumeric character.
> 
> So the correct hostname should be localhost without a dot.
> 

thanks for the info. 

> Regards,
> benjamin
> 
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