On 2014-09-08 04:53:08 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > On 28/07/14 09:40 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > BTW, what should the FQDN even be here? My laptop doesn’t have a FQDN > > that resolves to it, so the concept seems to be dubious at least. > > Actually unless your laptop is not connected to a network via DHCP there > is a 90% probability that if libnss-hostname is not installed that you > will resolve to <DHCP-hostname>.<DHCP-handed-out-domain>.
I disagree on this probability. At the Debian installation, the FQDN (specified at the installation) is put in /etc/hosts on the 127.0.1.1 line (unless this has changed recently). This means that the nodename will resolve to the configured FQDN and won't depend on DHCP, unless the DHCP client has been configured to update the nodename from the DHCP server, which is a very bad idea as this breaks various programs: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635322 Well, that's for IPv4. I'm wondering whether there's a glibc bug, which does not make the nodename resolvable with IPv6 via files as well. Otherwise one might be able to see problems similar to what libnss-hostname gives. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
