Issue #9766 has been updated by Ken Barber.
Subject changed from hostname fact is incorrect to hostname fact doesn't handle
hostnames with dots (relative to domainname)
Affected Facter version changed from 1.5.8 to 1.6.1rc4
Doug Balmer wrote:
> Some of us for various reasons like to have "hostname"s that are "relative
> names" that could contain a period. "example.com" below is the domain name.
So the premise here is that 'hostname' is really the relative name once the
domainname is removed from fqdn. In some ways I concur as I have used
multi-part 'hostnames' before like this but I think its very subjective and
needs debate.
On the negative another way to look at this is that really a hostname could be
relative to varying parts of a domain. So lets say you have:
foo1.production.city.country.mydomain.com
Out of the following what would the hostname be?
foo1
foo1.production
foo1.production.city
foo1.production.city.country
(and in-turn what is the domainname?)
I think the important question Doug is really what you want to do with this
information that you can't do without breaking down the $fqdn using functions
like split etc. Or with say regexp matching for node definitions or using the
$fqdn fact. What is the real world use case that makes this important to you?
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Bug #9766: hostname fact doesn't handle hostnames with dots (relative to
domainname)
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/9766
Author: Doug Balmer
Status: Needs Decision
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Ken Barber
Category:
Target version:
Keywords:
Branch:
Affected Facter version: 1.6.1rc4
Some of us for various reasons like to have "hostname"s that are "relative
names" that could contain a period. "example.com" below is the domain name.
[email protected]:/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter # rpm -qa| grep puppet
puppet-2.6.6-1.el5
[email protected]:/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter # rpm -qa| grep facter
facter-1.5.8-1
[email protected]:/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter # hostname
pdms01.lpr
[email protected]:/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter # hostname -f
pdms01.lpr.example.com
[email protected]:/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter # uname -n
pdms01.lpr
[email protected]:/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter # sysctl kernel.hostname
kernel.hostname = pdms01.lpr
[email protected]:/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter # facter hostname
pdms01
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