OoO En ce doux début de matinée du mardi 29 décembre 2009, vers 08:34, je disais:
>> Details in <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316099>. I >> do wonder, however, why the system hostname has to appear in /etc/hosts >> at all? Programs that want to find it out can read /etc/hostname >> directly, after all. And wtf is 'localdomain' for, anyway? > A common way to get hostname is to request node name through uname, then > asks for a resolution of this name. If the name does not appear in > /etc/hosts, this will lead to a DNS resolution and without network, this > can take a long time. And BTW, this is exactly what hostname -f does. It does not read /etc/hostname. -- BOFH excuse #96: Vendor no longer supports the product
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