On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:38:58PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Brian May wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:52:44AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > Considering that any non-trivial server needs to send email out, having > > > a working FQDN configured is not "obsolete". > > > > I believe mail servers these days generally use /etc/mailname, not hostname > > -f > > (although hostname -f might be the default for /etc/mailname). > > > > I consider using hostname -f for anything other then the initial default > > value > > broken because computers can have multiple network cards, multiple IP > > addresses, multiple domains, etc. I generally like to assume my computer > > isn't > > going to break badly because I have to change the output hostname -f > > returns. > > This is one place where Solaris has gotten this right: /etc/nodename > refers to the system itself, while each interface has its own (cf: > /etc/hostname.hme0).
Except /etc/hostname.hme0 doesn't need to contain a hostname, but a set of ifconfig arguments. That the first argument after the interface can be a hostname if it is defined in /etc/hosts is only a (useful) plus. But you can have various other information in /etc/hostname.hme0, such as the IPMP group. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
