Walter Tautz wrote: > I just tried the March 31, i386 iso 120 Mb image and noticed that upon initial > boot that the hostname configuration portion of the network configuration allows > hostnames to have a dot in it -- perfectly OK, please leave it WHEREAS once the > system reboots and one goes hostname configuration of the Debian Base system > configuration dots are NOT allowed suddenly for the hostname. My suggestion is > to correct this by ALLOWING dots. Clearly anyone who knows what they're doing > will realize that dots are allowed in hostname. Afterall the ndots option in > /etc/resolv.conf recognizes this possibility. Perhaps exim configuration can > also be told to recognize this possibility since it seems to think dots implies > domain names.... a separate issue I suppose.
I can't reproduce this, base-config is perfectly happy with hostnames containing dots in my testing. -- see shy jo
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