clone 492583 -1
reopen -1 Martin Goldman <[email protected]>
tags -1 - confirmed patch
notfound 492583 4.2~beta1-1
fixed 492583 4.2~beta1-1
notfound -1 3.9-3
retitle -1 xen-tools: "hostname -f" no longer returns the machine's FQDN
kthxbye

Martin Goldman wrote:
> Package: xen-tools
> Version: 4.2~beta1-1
> Followup-For: Bug #492583

I cloned this bug with your report as new bug since it seems to be a
slightly different bug.

> It appears that, possibly as a result of this change, "hostname -f"
> no longer returns the machine's FQDN; instead, it just returns the
> machine's short name (the one that's displayed if you simply type
> "hostname"). This is a problem for applications that need your FQDN.
> 
> One way of fixing this is by writing something like this to /etc/hosts:
> 
> a.b.c.d myhost.mydomain.com myhost
> 
> instead of writing 2 separate lines for myhost.mydomain.com and
> myhost as xen-tools is currently doing.

I'll have a look at it.

Thanks for the detailed report.

                Regards, Axel
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