Bug#583624: libnss-myhostname: maybe use 127.0.1.1 to be consistent with Debian's default /etc/hosts
On Sat, 29.05.10 09:33, Joachim Breitner (nome...@debian.org) wrote: Dear Christoph, Dear Lennart, Am Samstag, den 29.05.2010, 00:45 +0200 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: May I suggest to map to 127.0.1.1 for IPv4 instead of 127.0.0.2. This would be more consistent what Debian does per default in /etc/hosts. See also the Debian Reference Manual at: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html#_the_hostname_resolution thanks for the suggestion, Christoph. I’m replying to Lennart, the original author of nss-myhostname: Do you see and problem with making the default 127.0.1.1 on Debian? Do you mind if your software diverges in Debian somewhat? Hmm, I see no reason why 127.0.0.2 should be a better choice than 127.0.1.1, or vice versa. Can you come up with a reason? Given that one is as good as the other 127.0.0.2 looks a bit more straighforward to me, and I think that generally docs should be fixed to follow what the code does, not the other way round, so I'd probably vote for changing your manual, and keep the code in place. That said, I think this is really a minor issue, and I think it wouldn't be really that bad if debian would deviate here from the rest of the world. So go ahead with 127.0.1.1 if you want to and really don't want to fix the documentation instead. You have my blessing that that is OK. On top of that, if you can make up a good reason I'd be willing to change the upstream to 127.0.1.1, btw. So, convince me! Lennart -- Lennart PoetteringRed Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#583624: libnss-myhostname: maybe use 127.0.1.1 to be consistent with Debian's default /etc/hosts
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 23:58 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: Hmm, I see no reason why 127.0.0.2 should be a better choice than 127.0.1.1, or vice versa. Can you come up with a reason? No special reason I guess,.. I wanted it just to be aligned with Debian's standard. Given that one is as good as the other 127.0.0.2 looks a bit more straighforward to me, and I think that generally docs should be fixed to follow what the code does, not the other way round, so I'd probably vote for changing your manual, and keep the code in place. That said, I think this is really a minor issue, and I think it wouldn't be really that bad if debian would deviate here from the rest of the world. So go ahead with 127.0.1.1 if you want to and really don't want to fix the documentation instead. You have my blessing that that is OK. On top of that, if you can make up a good reason I'd be willing to change the upstream to 127.0.1.1, btw. So, convince me! I think the best would perhaps be to find out why Debian chose to use 127.0.1.1 and decide then Cheers, Chris smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Bug#583624: libnss-myhostname: maybe use 127.0.1.1 to be consistent with Debian's default /etc/hosts
Dear Christoph, Dear Lennart, Am Samstag, den 29.05.2010, 00:45 +0200 schrieb Christoph Anton Mitterer: May I suggest to map to 127.0.1.1 for IPv4 instead of 127.0.0.2. This would be more consistent what Debian does per default in /etc/hosts. See also the Debian Reference Manual at: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html#_the_hostname_resolution thanks for the suggestion, Christoph. I’m replying to Lennart, the original author of nss-myhostname: Do you see and problem with making the default 127.0.1.1 on Debian? Do you mind if your software diverges in Debian somewhat? Thanks, Joachim -- Joachim nomeata Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#583624: libnss-myhostname: maybe use 127.0.1.1 to be consistent with Debian's default /etc/hosts
Package: libnss-myhostname Severity: wishlist Hi. May I suggest to map to 127.0.1.1 for IPv4 instead of 127.0.0.2. This would be more consistent what Debian does per default in /etc/hosts. See also the Debian Reference Manual at: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch05.en.html#_the_hostname_resolution Cheers, Chris. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-heisenberg (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
