On Thu, 06 Oct 2005, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 06, Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > .localdomain is such a peace of shit which only makes troubles. So > Please explain which troubles.
Some programs will try to solve the reverse for 127.0.0.1, during normal operations (not to verify WHAT 127.0.0.1 points to, but because it is doing reverse DNS for every connection, and one just came over lo). Some of these programs, due to utter braindamage, special-case the string "localhost". Change that, and they break. Mysql is the highest profile case, apparently. Still, WHAT does a canonical name of localhost.localdomain. for 127.0.0.1 brings us? It is completely useless, it adds no extra functionality over a plain canonical name of "localhost". And it breaks badly designed applications. While it pains me to say so (I absolutely *loathe* bad design), reverting that completely useless change looks like a very good idea to me. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
