Richard Elling - PAE wrote: > Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: >> Darren J Moffat wrote: >>> Why does IPfilter care about the nodename of the system ? You can't >>> filter on it since it often doesn't match any thing that resolves to >>> an IP address. >> >> >> I've never encountered a scenario where the nodename of a system >> isn't in /etc/hosts. > > You haven't lived long enough :-P I have long since lost count of > how many times I've seen people do this.
Whats more it is highly likely to be the case in the future. It is almost always the case with a laptop. My laptop is 'called' (ie uname -n returns) islay but almost no where on the planet does the IP address I'm given resolve to that. The nodename has nothing to do with network reachability or resolvabilty of names. -- Darren J Moffat
