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Re: Contents of /etc/hosts
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Contents of /etc/hosts |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 22:25:10 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello!
John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 10:17:14PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> Hi!
>
> John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > So ... my recommendations:
> >
> > 1. We change /etc/hosts to read
> >
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> > ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> >
> > 127.0.0.2 gambrinus
>
> It???s not very useful to have ???localhost.localdomain???, is it?
>
> Try doing this: Put just a single line in your /etc/hosts:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> then run "hostname -d"
>
> You will get the answer "(none)"
Right.
But “localhost.localdomain” is kinda pointless no? I’ve checked a few
systems and I’ve never seen that. Typical desktop GNU/Linux installs
don’t have an FQDN and “hostname -d” doesn’t return one; that’s fine.
I think the current default is OK, but we should allow people to specify
an FQDN when there’s a meaningful one.
Thoughts?
Ludo’.